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Cicada Books expands pictorial novel publication with YA and Adult Titles , Everything Amplified and Shushu make 2025 and 2026
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What do the gazillion of kid understand middle - grade graphic novels want to take next ? London - based book newspaper publisher Cicada Books is betting on an thought to inflate its publishing of graphic novels . Beginning withEverything Amplified , a YA graphical novel fromSarah LippettandZiggy Hanaor , this September . And an grownup graphic novel next class , withShushu , a graphic novel fromAlte Zachen / Old Thingco - creatorsBenjamin Phillipsand also Ziggy Hanaor . Both these deals were strike flat between Cicada and the creators .
Everything Amplifiedby Sarah Lippett , Ziggy HanaorA beautiful vivid novel about the complexities of teen life , the tangles of twinship and the power of music to somehow make sense of it all . Sometimes everything feels with child and uncomfortable . My consistence , my kinsfolk , my life … And the only matter that releases that weight is music … . It ’s like a secret passage to a world where everything is switched off but legal … and I finger free . Nel is 15 long time erstwhile and life is a pulverisation . General Certificate of Secondary Education are draining , social pressures are unrelenting and parent and teachers are unmindful . Somehow Ludo , Nel ’s handsome twin blood brother , seems uninfluenced by it all , gliding effortlessly through life ’s complication with a assurance and arrogance that only illuminates Nel ’s insecurities . Her best friend , Kit and her play list are pretty much the only things she ’s got going for her properly now . When Ludo joins a lot and Kit startle going out with the guitar player , it feel like even the petite space Nel has carved out for herself is in hazard . But nothing is forever , and teen sprightliness can turn on a dime . When Nel finds herself taking Ludo ’s position in the band , she has to knead out whether liveliness outside the shadows is all it ’s cracked up to be . Sometimes you need to keep an eye on the music to find your style back to yourself . 1 Sept. 2025
Sarah Lippett ’s debut graphic novelStan and Nanfrom Jonathan Cape in 2016 snagged the Quentin Blake Award for representative and a Guardian Book of the Year . Hanaor said : " ' I was a long - time adorer of Sarah ’s body of work – Stan and Nan is one of my preferent graphic novels of all time . Sarah has a warmth and spontaneousness to her agate line - work and her writing stylus has a soundness and optimism that feel very necessary justly now . Although we never coiffe out to write a YA leger , our deal experience of medicine as a refuge in times of trouble led us by nature to that arena . Whilst euphony can often raise a sense of nostalgia , it was of import to us that the book be set in a contemporary context , speculate the complicated reality of growing up in a digital years . " Lippett said : " I loved collaborating with Ziggy . I ’ve been involved in various euphony community since I was young , write songs and play bass in a post - punk band . It was both intimidating and a delight to translate the push and emotion of make music into a visual voice communication . I really enjoyed building the characters and the earth of Waterford . My intention was to look at the confines of a minuscule town through the eyes of Nel – a smart , ambitious foreigner – and then contrast that with the position of her easygoing , popular twin buddy , Ludo . Female role models give Nel a sense of possibility and a glimpse into the wider world that awaits . "
Cicada began publishing graphic novels in 2022 with Benjamin Phillips ' Carnegie - shortlistedAlte Zachen / Old Thing , and followed that winner withThe Egg Incidentin 2023 . Hanaor is also working with Phillips onShushu , an adult graphic novel to be published in 2026 . Cicada is planning a major praseodymium and marketing campaign to launchEverything Amplified .
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