38. MARK SIEGEL: Launching an adult graphic novel imprint and fostering a creative lab

09/19/24 • 24 min

You may have heard of the publishing imprint First Second (aka :01). It's been around for years, giving readers graphic novels for all ages. Well, it's doing so well that Creative Director Mark Siegel is branching out. 23rd Street Books is a brand new imprint, which will specifically focus on adult graphic novels of all genres! Check out this conversation with Mark for an inside look at the publishing machine and magic of art.
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LiteraryHype Podcast - 38. MARK SIEGEL: Launching an adult graphic novel imprint and fostering a creative lab

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Speaker 1
Hi and welcome to Literary Hype. I am Stephanie Ears literary hype woman and I get to bring you something really cool today. This is not a normal author conversation vibe. This is a conversation with a publisher which when I went into it, I kind of had this mindset that it wasn't going to be all that interesting because it's a publisher, not an author.
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Speaker 1
It's like, what? Blah, blah, blah? I just had it in my h