Viking Buys Graphic Novel Rights To Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle

Meriam Metoui at Viking has purchased, at public sale, the graphic novel rights to Maggie Stiefvater‘s YA prose collection The Raven Cycle, for a six-figure sum and a four-book deaL.

Stephanie Williams will write the variation and Dick Grayson: Misplaced Carnival artist Sas Milledge will draw it. Telling the story of “4 non-public college boys, a psychic’s daughter, and a Welsh legend that lies dormant beneath the mountains of a sleepy Virginia city”, the publication of the primary quantity shall be within the spring of 2025.

Stephanie Williams is a comic book guide historian and popular culture critic for publications equivalent to SYFYFANGRRLS, Marvel, The A.V. Membership, Nerdist, Den of Geek, and Rotten Tomatoes with three ongoing webcomics, Parenthood Activate!, However What If Although?, and Residing Heroes. and writes Nubia & The Amazons, Spider-Verse, Nubia Queen Of The Amazons and Darkish Disaster. Sas Milledge wrote and drew Mamo at Increase Studios, in addition to Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Zephyr.

Maggie Stiefvater’s brokers Richard Pine and Charlie Olsen at InkWell Administration, negotiated the cope with Viking, in addition to Sas Milledge’s agent Jennifer March Soloway at Andrea Brown Literary Company, whereas Stephanie Williams represented herself.

That is how the primary novel is pitched. “Yearly, Blue Sargent stands subsequent to her clairvoyant mom because the soon-to-be useless stroll previous. Blue by no means sees them–till this yr, when a boy emerges from the darkish and speaks to her. His title is Gansey, a wealthy scholar at Aglionby, the native non-public college. Blue has a coverage of staying away from Aglionby boys. Often known as Raven Boys, they’ll solely imply hassle. However Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a manner she will’t completely clarify. He’s on a quest that has encompassed three different Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship scholar who resents the privilege round him; Ronan, the fierce soul whose feelings vary from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher who notices many issues however says little or no. For so long as she will bear in mind, Blue has been warned that she is going to trigger her true like to die. She does not imagine in real love, and by no means thought this may be an issue. However as her life turns into caught up within the unusual and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so positive anymore.”