Gender Queer Maia Kobabe’s New Youngsters Graphic Novel, Saachi’s Tales

Maia Kobabe is the creator of the most-banned graphic novel in America – and one among its best-selling – Gender Queer: A Memoir. That e-book, initially revealed in 2019, was not initially meant for teenagers, however gained awards for its enchantment to a youthful viewers. Nevertheless, the response from some mother and father – and politicians – to a e-book being learn by youngsters that they discover objectionable, has led to repeated bans, challenges, authorized challenges of obscenity and political campaigns in opposition to a e-book, and plenty of different books that deal with racial points, sexual orientation or gender identification in colleges, libraries and bookstores. Bleeding Cool has lined these tales repeatedly during the last two years.

Gender Queer has been recognised as a vital graphic novel relating to individuals speaking about their very own gender identification, and Maia Kobabe has talked about how honoured e has been to have individuals, particularly youthful individuals, discover that in eir work. But additionally that Kobabe was engaged on one other graphic novel tackling such themes, particularly written for a youthful viewers.

And that’s what has now been introduced. Scholastic has paid a six-figure sum in an public sale for the world publishing rights to Saachi’s Tales, a brand new middle-grade graphic novel written by Maia Kobaba and drawn by Fortunate Srikumar for the Scholastic Graphic imprint, to be edited by David Leviathan. Saachi’s Tales is a “coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel follows aspiring writer Saachi, who struggles to navigate altering social dynamics and her evolving identification, as her pals begin coupling up and everyone else appears to suit neatly right into a boy/woman binary.”

Fortunate Srikumar is a cartoonist from San Jose, California who makes comics about love, identification incapacity and queerness, and you’ll learn their different work on Instagram (or earlier on Patreon).

Scholastic Graphix will publish Saachi’s Tales within the spring of 2023. Emily Mitchell at Wernick & Pratt represented each Maia Kobabe and Fortunate Srikumar within the deal.