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Soaring Penguin is an Ignatz and Eisner nominated graphic novel and comic publisher in the UK.
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Soaring Penguin Press (then Soaring Penguin) was formed in 1998 to publish Meanwhile…, a comics anthology featuring a mix of established comics creators and emerging new talent, for which an Arts Councils Grant was provided for 4 issues. Soaring Penguin went on to publish the comic Space Babe 113 by John Maybury, and the comics magazines Spooky The Warren Fanzine and From The Tomb. Soaring Penguin

provided publishing services for Comics Forum, the quarterly magazine of the Comics Creators Guild. In 2004, Soaring Penguin incorporated in order to separate the publishing business from the personal business of John Anderson. In 2012, in an effort to take the efforts of Soaring Penguin from that of a hobbyist to a more professional level, Soaring Penguin rebranded as Soaring Penguin Press. The publisher, John Anderson, joined the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) and attended the London Book Fair (LBF) as a member. At the LBF, Soaring Penguin Press initiated negotiations for the English Language Print Rights for Loisel’s Peter Pan, a 6-volume bande desinnée originally published by Glenat from 1990 to 2004. That same year, Soaring Penguin Press published Undertow, Ellen Lindner’s graphic novel, and Little Death, originally a German graphic anthology by Thomas Kriebaum. These two publications cemented the company’s reputation of bringing quality graphic novels to an English audience, as well as publishing stories by emerging UK talent. Recognising the enormity of the efforts required to be successful, Nora Goldberg was engaged on a freelance basis as Publishing Assistant. In 2013, Soaring Penguin Press published the omnibus edition of Peter Pan; this was the first time that the series had been seen in its entirely in English, and the first story by Loisel to be published in English. Also that year, Soaring Penguin Press published the collected edition of The Lengths, Howard Hardiman’s challenging graphic novel of a male pr******te in London. In 2014, Soaring Penguin Press published To End All Wars, the Graphic Anthology of the First World War to both critical and popular acclaim. The anthology featured 26 stories by over 50 different creators from 13 different countries. Having secured the print rights, Soaring Penguin Press also brought Peter Pan to a North American audience, launching the book at the Montreal Comic Con with creator Loisel as Guest of Honour. Also in 2014, Soaring Penguin Press relauched Meanwhile… featuring the return of Strangehaven by Gary Spencer Millidge, a series that had been left incomplete since 2005. Unlike the previous series, this run of Meanwhile… would have a mixture of on-going series as well as self-contained stories. The creators would still be a mix of established comics creators and emerging new talent. Having tried to engage a Press Officer since 2012, Soaring Penguin Press were delighted in 2014 to gain the services of Jon Purves, on an ad hoc basis to provide Marketing and Press support. Already in 2015, Soaring Penguin Press has entered into a contract with Quebec, Canada-based publisher Editions Mecanique Generale to publish two of their graphic novels in English later in the year. They have also entered into negotiations with French publisher Lombard to publish the entire Notes series by best-selling French author Boulet, as well as a second series l’ostie d’chat. Soaring Penguin Press will be attending Angouleme, the world’s premiere comics festival, in France to meet with other publishers and to discuss foreign language rights.

26/07/2024

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20/07/2024

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19/07/2024

I was asked to review a superhero comic. Specifically Zip - A Grungy Superhuman comic. (https://www.facebook.com/zipcomicuk)

I quite enjoyed it. The story involves superhumans - both good and bad - but it's not about superhumans. It's about people who have special abilities and are trying to make a difference. It's not quite as alt as the title would have you believe, but that's a good thing. Both the writing and the artwork are articulate and flesh out the characters well. I'd be interested to see where this story is going.

07/07/2024

I'm at the Vancouver Comic Con where a dealer has two comics seemingly signed by Benjamin Taggert. No one knows who or why. Can anyone shed some light?

25/06/2024

New West Comic Fest

Soaring Penguin Press in conjunction with Weirdspace will be hosting a one-day comic festival in New Westminster, 28th September 2024.

For details and to book a table, this is the gForm:

Event Timing: 28 September, 2024 Event Address: Sapperton Community Town Hall 318 Keary Street New Westminster

24/06/2024

Chandrama Anderson MA, LMFT, will be appearing at the American Library Association Conference this week.

Chandrama is the author of I Do I Don’t: How to build a better marriage, the newest publication from Soaring Penguin Press. I Do I Don’t is a non-fiction graphic novel providing relationship therapy advice. Each chapter of the book ends with Put It Into Practice, a set of exercises to support the topics covered in the book.

Appearing for signings and to promote her new book I Do I Don’t: How to build a better marriage, Chandrama will be at the Diamond Book Distributors booth 1547 at the following times:

Friday 28th June at 18.30
Saturday 29th June at 15.00
Sunday 30th June at 13.30

17/06/2024

Just two weeks left to enter the Alison Brown Comics Maestro Award competition! Send your 3-page comic strip by 30 June to enter and get your work in front of judges from Monster Fun, Beano and The Phoenix comic. More info via our website.

30/04/2024

This is our bookshop, Westwood Books in Sedbergh, Cumbria. It’s a large building, on a main road at the edge of town, that has been a bookshop now for 18 years.

But we need your help. Even though the shop has been here for so long, we still get comments like…

“Is it a library?”

“Do you have to be a member?”

“I’ve driven past lots of times and didn’t know you were here.”

“Oh I’ve never been inside there.”

What can we do to let people know that we are here and that yes, we are a bookshop with books for sale?

We sell both new and secondhand books and can order in most books that are still in print. We also post books out. We sell other things like greetings cards and gifts too.

Can you help us spread the word?

28/04/2024

Next week Wednesday our $1000 Older Writers Grant opens to the public. If you are at least fifty years of age, and you're starting out on your writing career, then you are welcome to apply! It's free, easy, and straightforward! Visit bit.ly/olderwritersgrant to learn more about the grant and its guidelines.

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EDITING TO ADD: Hi, folks. SLF director, Mary Anne Mohanraj, here. This grant has received far more visibility than any of our other grants (that we've given for 20+ years, giving out over $100,000 in funds so far). I think that must be due to the conversation over this graphic pushing the post up in the Facebook algorithms. (Not a deliberate strategy on our part, I promise you!)

As a result, I suspect our volunteer jurors are going to get flooded with subs this time around, which will be an interesting challenge for us; we may need to take a little more time to read before announcing a winner this year. We'll see! Please be patient with us, and note that we're mostly volunteer run, with a few part-time staffers.

But let me take this opportunity to note that if you're eligible for this grant, you're probably eligible for other grants of ours -- at least the travel grant, which is open to all. We also have diversity grants, a working class writers' grant, and a S. Asian grant (given in memoriam of a father who loved literature). We hope you apply.

And if you're seeing this and are in a financial position to join as a member ($30 / year), details are on our website, and membership growth is the best way to help us continue giving out more grants into the future. I'd love to have a strong enough base that we could offer multiple Older Writers' Grants every year, for example. Something we're working towards. If you're interested in donating a larger sum towards a new grant, or towards one of our existing grants, please get in touch!

Do check out our other writerly offerings -- our podcast, interviews, and charted Deep Dives with writers, editors, game designers, and more. We periodically offer classes and workshops as well, so sign up for the newsletter to stay informed!

16/04/2024

I have a small but significant request. We haven't had a single visitor today and one way we can be helped is sharing our posts on social media, it costs nothing and you may help us to become known by a family that don't know there is a children's bookshop on the Wirral. If you could share my next post in any local groups, parent school groups or on your own profile, that would be truly awesome.

30/03/2024

Play it safe - pass on Easter lilies if you have cats!

29/03/2024

Listen, Beautiful Márcia | The Slings & Arrows Graphic Novel Guide

12/03/2024

Nicole Georges is offering an online graphic memoir seminar. Details may be found here: https://nicolejgeorges.com/product/graphic-memoir-workshop-live-on-zoom-2/

Nicole is offering a (very limited) scholarship for this workshop to BIPOC, Trans students & students living with a disability.

For further details, Nicole's contact details are available on the website.

Graphic Memoirist, Professor, Animal Lover

24/02/2024

It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program

12/01/2024

Check out Scholastic UK’s new Graphic Novel Prize

31/12/2023

This is all it takes folks...

22/12/2023

Calling all cartoonists! The Fitzrovia Partnership and London Festival of Architecture are looking for artists to submit creative designs that signpost to key destinations in Fitzrovia - which includes us! If you'd like to support our local borough please check out the details below and register your interest by Wednesday 10 January.

https://ow.ly/yaxW50QiQWl

20/12/2023

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