St. Louis, MO, September 16, 2020 – Amidst the ongoing discussion of resuming education during the Covid-19 pandemic, parents, schools, and libraries are turning to graphic novels to capture young readers’ imagination. Today, Magnetic Press proudly announces that their hit comic MISTER INVINCIBLE has been named a Junior Library Guild official selection.
This quirky comic book centers around a mild-mannered superhero with the unique ability to step out of the comic strip panels to affect the events in other panels, breaking the rules of time and space with imaginative, mind-bending – and often hilarious – results. It won the Bologna Ragazzi Award for Best Comic at the 2020 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and has garnered enthusiastic starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly.
This quirky comic book centers around a mild-mannered superhero with the unique ability to step out of the comic strip panels to affect the events in other panels, breaking the rules of time and space with imaginative, mind-bending – and often hilarious – results. It won the Bologna Ragazzi Award for Best Comic at the 2020 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and has garnered enthusiastic starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly.
- Kirkus (Starred Review) -- “dozens of mind- and narrative-bending graphic mini-adventures” “ uncommon cleverness”
- Booklist (Starred Review) -- “Jousselin breathes joyous life into the form for fans and scholars of every age”
- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) -- “exudes infectious charm as he inspires those around him.”
After catching the attention of so many noted reviewers, Magnetic Press’s “local superhero” has been chosen to be a Junior Library Guild Selection, receiving the coveted JLG Gold Standard Stamp, signifying a title of the highest quality and a must-read book chosen for their curated collection.
Magnetic Press’s Publisher Mike Kennedy responded to JLG selection by saying “MISTER INVINCIBLE has such a unique and clever appeal to readers of all ages that there’s no wonder why it is so universally praised. We were hooked when we first saw Pascal Jousselin’s wild, fourth-wall-breaking series of strips, and that seems to hold true for almost everyone else who picks up, too! It sparks the imagination and will change the way you think about comics.”
MISTER INVINCIBLE is currently available wherever books and graphic novels are sold, and available to retailers through Diamond Book Distributors. Digital versions are also available on ComiXology and Amazon Kindle.
ABOUT MAGNETIC PRESS
MAGNETIC PRESS is a subsidiary of Polarity Ltd that publishes graphic novels, art books, and periodicals curated with a focus on internationally recognized content and talent, presented with premium quality design and production value. The Magnetic brand was founded by writer and video game veteran Mike Kennedy in 2013 as the independent publishing company Magnetic Press, Inc, featuring creators both new and established from around the world, sharing their stories with an English-language audience often for the first time. Their award-winning library includes such celebrated titles as the Love series of wordless wildlife graphic novels, as well as Eisner-nominated books Stay, A Sea of Love, Watersnakes, Herakles, Doomboy, A Glance Backward, Little Tails, The Ghost of Gaudi, and Dave Dorman’s Wasted Lands Omnibus. Magnetic has earned a total of 19 Eisner Award nominations in their first five-of-five years of eligibility. Magnetic also won the Gold Medal of Excellence in the graphic novel category of the 2015 Independent Publisher Awards for Love: The Fox.
About Junior Library Guild
Junior Library Guild, a MSI Information Services company, was founded in 1929 as the Junior Literary Guild, a commercial book club devoted to juvenile literature. Today, JLG is the leading book review and collection development service that helps thousands of K12 school and public libraries acquire the best new children’s and young adult books. Its mission still follows editorial board member Eleanor Roosevelt’s mantra to put the right book in the hands of every reader–fostering the love of reading and learning as a path to lifelong success.
ABOUT MAGNETIC PRESS
MAGNETIC PRESS is a subsidiary of Polarity Ltd that publishes graphic novels, art books, and periodicals curated with a focus on internationally recognized content and talent, presented with premium quality design and production value. The Magnetic brand was founded by writer and video game veteran Mike Kennedy in 2013 as the independent publishing company Magnetic Press, Inc, featuring creators both new and established from around the world, sharing their stories with an English-language audience often for the first time. Their award-winning library includes such celebrated titles as the Love series of wordless wildlife graphic novels, as well as Eisner-nominated books Stay, A Sea of Love, Watersnakes, Herakles, Doomboy, A Glance Backward, Little Tails, The Ghost of Gaudi, and Dave Dorman’s Wasted Lands Omnibus. Magnetic has earned a total of 19 Eisner Award nominations in their first five-of-five years of eligibility. Magnetic also won the Gold Medal of Excellence in the graphic novel category of the 2015 Independent Publisher Awards for Love: The Fox.
About Junior Library Guild
Junior Library Guild, a MSI Information Services company, was founded in 1929 as the Junior Literary Guild, a commercial book club devoted to juvenile literature. Today, JLG is the leading book review and collection development service that helps thousands of K12 school and public libraries acquire the best new children’s and young adult books. Its mission still follows editorial board member Eleanor Roosevelt’s mantra to put the right book in the hands of every reader–fostering the love of reading and learning as a path to lifelong success.
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