Happy New Year!

 

In Brazil!

Outlaw and Excalibur are now both available in Brazil, in Portuguese, from Edições SM. You can buy them online at Livraria Cultura and Livraria Saraiva.

New project - Joan Of Arc

The new project for Walker Books in the Heroes and Heroines collection is Messenger: the Legend of Joan of Arc - written by Tony Lee, art by Sam Hart

New news

Outlaw is on the NY Public Library's 2010 Stuff for the Teen Age list and in the running for the 2010 Children's Choice Book Awards.

Great Graphic Novels

Outlaw: the Legend Of Robin Hood has been nominated as one of 2010's Great Graphic Novels for Teens by The American Library Association and Young Adult Library Services Association.

Cheers!

2010 is here

We are finalists for the Cybils Children’s and Young Adults Bloggers’ Literary Awards and made the 2010 Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List.

Plus a couple of new reviews:

Graphic Classroom

BBC Radio 4 Front Row

And there is now a blog for our next project Excalibur: the Legend of King Arthur.

Best wishes to all for 2010!

Tony Lee interview

Interview with Tony Lee at ComicBookResources:

"Robin has to have a loss that makes him human. He can't just walk in with a witty quip - he has to earn the right."

Out today in the USA

And some new reviews:

School Library Journal

Book Trust

Post Tribune

Becky's Book Reviews

Again, thanks to all who took the time to review the book.

Tony Lee in Edinburgh

So this weekend I'm flying up to Edinburgh for four days, where I'm a guest at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. It's an absolutley massive book expo with a ton of famous writers, and I'm there to talk about Outlaw: The Legend Of Robin Hood among other things, and show kids how to write comics.

It's an incredible honour for me, actually - if you read my columns you'll know that I pretty much love doing school talks to kids who want to grow up doing what I do - after all, if it wasn't for a children's book writer doing the same to me when I was a kid, I'd never have become a writer. So the chance of being able to talk to kids on two days, let alone spend a day in Glasgow doing an outreach programme for a couple of schools - is brilliant.

ForeWord Magazine

We are on the cover of this month's ForeWord Magazine, and Tony and I will be at this weekend's London Film and Comic Con - with posters and sketches for sale.

Reviews

We have some reviews, even an audio one:

Good Reads
Reading Rants
The Bookbag
Geek Syndicate

Thanks to all who took the time to write (or talk) about our book.

Video clip

I asked a friend to make a music track and put together a video clip with images from the graphic novel.

Interviews

Tony and I have been interviewed for the Bold Outlaw website:

Tony Lee interview

Sam Hart interview

A dashing, brooding outlaw

"(Robin Hood) is a dashing, brooding outlaw—impressive,

admirable and a little scary."

We are reviewed in Kirkus Reviews Graphic Spotlight 2009, along with many other excellent Graphic Novels being released in the USA in August/September.

BEA choice

We have been chosen as a Hot Fall Graphic Novel for Libraries at BEA (BookExpo America), the largest book publishing event in North America.

Now on sale

As of yesterday, it's out!

No idea how it's selling, but I suppose this can't be bad (even if only for a couple of hours): 

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank:

#48 in

Books > Children's Books > Comics & Graphic Novels

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Robin Hood Links

More information about Robin Hood:

BoldOutlaw.com

Robin Hood Wiki

In the News

At Robot 6: Candlewick's graphic novel line gets some attention.

In Brazil: Robin Hood is news (in Portuguese).

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