The Papercutz Family wants to wish you and yours a very healthy and happy holiday season! However and wherever you celebrate, we hope you wrap up the year with loved ones and good times. We wanted to take this time to look back on our fantastic year and celebrate all the exciting releases and their creators along the way, as well as giving you some great gift ideas if you still need! We’ve got a little something for every reader in your life, from hilarious high-fantasy hijinks to out-of-this-world adventures!
For the Space Opera Fans:
A new middle grade series of epic space adventure and intrigue with full-color art and comic pages!
When Elias and Alice’s mother disappears in a nearby forest, the siblings quickly embark on a journey to find her. But nothing can prepare them for what lies ahead–not when they come face-to-face with a crew of aliens who whisk them away to a spaceship where they meet terrifying creatures, dangerous attackers, and a secret that changes all Alice and Elias have ever known about their family.
Amid the mayhem, will Elias and Alice be able to traverse through the stars and find their mother?
For the Young Witches in Training:
Plucky young Daisy, now the court’s witch, is back for another fact-based adventure alongside Queen Elizabeth.
As a young witch, Daisy Sparrow, gets used to her role as Queen Elizabeth I’s right-hand witch, providing spells and cures at her beck and call. But things aren’t completely merry in the castle. The constant pressure from the Queen’s advisors for her to marry and turn over her power to a male sovereign boils over. Enter a prince from rival-country Spain. Only, Daisy feels she has seen him before and something’s not quite right about him now. Can a young witch protect her Queen from the various nefarious forces circling around her?
For the Videogame & Music Fans:
Join the Digital Lizards of Doom on an unforgettable action adventure through the cosmos!
When a magical trickster secretly traps an entire universe inside a video game world, a young warrior named Dizzy Doom must search for answers to unravel the mystery. But as villains from another galaxy come to attack his kingdom, Dizzy is forced to make an unlikely alliance with a mysterious ninja and cyborg cat pirate. Dizzy’s ideology will be tested as he comes to realize everything is not always as it seems.
For the Young Adventurers/Artists:
A classic refreshed from master cartoonist Art Baltazar’s early years!
Join Craybi Craynobi and his son, Crayski Craynobi, the future chosen one with the chosen nose, as well as their many friends and allies like Weezerd the wise wizard, as they adventure through mythical lands to try to save the city of Yahgz and its people, the Yahgeez. But are Craybi and Crayski enough to face the Giant Green Gorilla? Or even bigger foes as they ford a river of mud, or enter the Land of Ashes? Craybi and Crayski will need their wits and some helpful allies to help everyone. Find out how they save YAHGZ in this zany new graphic novel series by world-famous cartoonist Art Baltazar!
For the High-Flying Sci-Fi Fans:
The students of the School for Extaterrestrial Girls has met their match when they collde with the School For Extraterrestrial Boys!
The extraterrestrial girls are back! With their former school compromised, exposing Tara, Misako, Summer, and Kat, to possible danger from unknown alien forces, they all must relocate to a new hidden school–The School for Extraterrestrial Boys! Located on a hidden island in the arctic north, the new campus has a mysteriously warm summer climate, a beautiful lake, and dozens of sinister mysteries! The girls are staying in what appears to be summer cabins on the lake while going to school in the mysterious castle where the boys stay. This is all under the watchful eye of the boys’ headmaster, Headmaster Stokes—an arrogant man with an unknown agenda and an obsession with Tara’s people. They may still be in school, but this will be a semester full of blossoming romances, learning to love themselves, and trying to survive the mysteries of both this terrifying island and boys! Romance, magic, and near-death experiences are all part of a regular school day at the School for Extraterrestrial Girls.
For the Junior Reporters/Cheese Connoisseurs:
Geronimo and friends have to get to the bottom of a crown jewel of a case!
Checkmate, cheese-lovers, er, we mean chess-lovers. For once, all is quiet in New Mouse City, so Geronimo Stilton, Editor-in-Chief of The Rodents Gazette can report on an incredible chess match-up. On one side, Gary Goudov, world-renowned chess champion, and on the other side, a super chess-playing computer! But after Geronimo leaves, the infamouse Gem Gang commits a string of robberies that only the Stiltons can untangle. Can Geronimo, Benjamin, and Thea protect the good mice of New Mouse City from the greed of the Gem Gang? Find out in this cheddar-ific volume of GERONIMO REPORTER.
For The Loud House/Casagrandes Super Fans:
What do Ace Savvy, Muscle Fish, and El Falcon de Fuego (The Falcon of Fire) all have in common? They’re super-heroes! But, what makes a super-hero truly super? And what can make this SUPER SPECIAL even more super? Familia and friends, of course! Not only do we have Lincoln Loud and Clyde idolizing their super-hero favorites, but see what Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lisa, Lola, Lana, and Lily are up to along with Ronnie Anne, Carl, and other members of the familia (from THE CASAGRANDES). What adventures lie ahead for THE LOUD HOUSE and THE CASAGRANDES? Are super-heroes all that they seem? Do you need a superpower to be a super-hero? Find out all this and much, much more in the latest comics anthology of all-new stories based on the hit Nickelodeon animated series. Featuring stories by The Loud House creative team!Lincoln, Clyde, and Lincoln’s ten sisters Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lisa, and Lily for some spy games, top notch gadgetry (thanks, Lisa!) and lots of chaos to uncover. Featuring all-new stories by the talent behind the Emmy-nominated series THE LOUD HOUSE and THE CASAGRANDES.
For the Ancient Gaul Scholars:
The international bestselling graphic novel in a new North American collectors’ edition.
Positive thinking has invaded our favorite Gaulish village. And Asterix is positive it’s because the Romans are up to no good! Will poetic language and optimism be enough to defeat our heroes Asterix, Obelix, and their magic potion?
Also available now from Papercutz: ASTERIX graphic novels, each featuring three classic Asterix adventures with helpful contextual afterwords to promote better understanding.
For the Spooky Story Fans:
Join The Nightmare Brigade on another adventure into the unknown!
Professor Angus and his three 14 year old kids, Tristan, Esteban and Sarah make up the NIGHTMARE BRIGADE – saving people from the terrors of the night one nightmare at a time. In this volume, the gang faces their biggest challenge yet – the mad mind of Leonard – to save Tristan’s beloved mother, Alice. She ventured into Leonard’s dreams ten years ago, but got trapped when the dream turned tragic. Tristan and Angus have gotten more experienced and the Brigade is bigger and better than ever, but to save Alice requires more; it means delving into Alice’s own past to bring her into the NIGHTMARE BRIGADE’S future. Can they do it? And what will happen if they do…?
For the Young Historians:
Three educational adventures in one volume!
Modern day kids, Annie and Nico, travel way back in time to ancient Egypt and the great pyramids. That’s 4,500 years ago, to when the Great Pyramid of Giza, the biggest pyramid in the world, was built. Then, Annie and Nico check out the Great Wall of China, another impressive architectural feat. Finally, Annie and Nico go back in time to learn about “black gold,” otherwise known as oil, a non-renewable natural resource. Collecting three graphic novel adventures.
For the Cartoon and Cosmos Fans:
Astro Mouse is depressed. He misses his family and home. They have been drifting in space for so long they hardly remember when they last saw Earth! Light Bulb, Lamp, Astro-Chicken and the soldiers from planet Bubblegum try to cheer their friend up. Nothing works until they find a strange planet that looks like…Wait! It’s Earth! Unfortunately, Earth has changed a lot and it’s overrun with dinosaurs…Where have our space heroes landed? Are they in the past or…the future? Will Astro Mouse reunite with his family ever again?
For the Residents of Smurf Village:
Has The Smurfs’ eternal rival, the wizard Gargamel, fallen under life’s ultimate spell…… LOVE?? Join Papa Smurf, Smurfette, and the rest of the lovable blue smurfs for classic, three-apple tall adventures, translated into English for the first time!
Life for Gargamel has been frustrating of late: he’s tired of hunting, living alone, and cooking for himself. A lady companion would be a solution… but who would take the frumpy evil sorcerer as a companion?! If love is magic, can even Gargamel be transformed for the better? The Smurfs think so and concoct a scheme to get Gargamel partnered up! Also featuring the Smurfs’ friends Johan and Peewit in an adventure of their own. Johan, the royal page, and Peewit, the court jester, investigate the truth behind a young noble with exceptional swordsmanship.
Plus: Join the Smurfs for tales of magic and sorcery, along with fun short stories showcasing the whole Smurfs Village. A perfect tie-in opportunity with the all-new SMURFS animated series on Nickelodeon!
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