Action Lab signs Eisner- and Harvey Award winner Lea Hernandez's new all-ages vampire yarn The Garlicks and answers the question, "Who are the smart guys publishing all-ages and girl-friendly comics?"
Action Lab is already well-known for its stable of all-ages books, starting with Jeremy Whitley’s Eisner-nominatedPrinceless and continuing through the upcoming Molly Danger from Jamal Igle and Skyward from
Jeremy Dale. Action Lab's mission is to bring great comics for kids to
the market, and have been actively seeing to expand its offerings to
meet that goal.
From the start, Hernandez's The Garlicks has been gathering heaps of praise: Neil Gaiman has called her work "terrific" and Astro City writer Kurt Busiek called it "…funny, human, silly, gorgeous, sweet, and smart." Brian Truitt ofUSA Today wrote an extended article praising the book and profiling the amazing work Hernandez was putting into it.
While The Garlicks found
a home in the hearts of many readers, it needed the right publisher.
Hernandez, a pioneer in webcomics and American manga, says, "Pandora is a
character who is near and dear to me and I wanted a smart publisher
like Action Lab to get her in front of an adoring legion of readers. I
could give minutes of press-friendly rah-rah talk, but here's what's
important: Coffee and cookies. I'm laying in mountainous supplies of
both so I can make the best damn graphic novel about the worst vampire
girl you've ever seen!"
Action Lab
President, Kevin Freman, when asked about the project, said, "We are
excited about bringing Garlicks under the Action Lab umbrella, and we
think it is a perfect fit for the types of books that we offer. Lea
Hernandez is a fabulous talent, and all of us look forward to working
with her."
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