I’m not big into web comics like David is, but some time ago I reviewed the first season of the web comic Smash. I thought that it was a lot of fun and a book that I’d love to see in book form. That day has since arrived, with creator Chris Bolton announcing that Smash was coming out in book form! Huge congrats to the Smash camp, and check out the press release below:
In her enthusiastic review for the School Library Journal blog, Elizabeth Bird wrote, “If [Smash] follows the lead of such other successful webcomics as Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Jellaby in print form, I will be well pleased.” And now, they’re doing just that!
Chris and Kyle Bolton, the creators of Smash, are thrilled to announce that they’ve signed a deal to have Season One of their webcomic published by Candlewick Press, the home of such acclaimed children’s books as the Judy Moody, Girl Detective series and the novels of Kate DiCamillo (The Tale of Despereaux).
Smash is an all-ages webcomic about a ten-year-old boy who absorbs the powers of his superhero idol – along with his greatest villain! The entire first season is still available for free online, and the Bolton brothers are hard at work on Season Two, which they expect to debut in September. No publication date has been set for the book.
Their editor at Candlewick is Mary Lee Donovan, who loved and believed in this project at first glance. The Bolton brothers are represented by Bernadette Baker-Baughman of the Baker’s Mark Literary Agency.
