In October 2013, the Egmont Verlagsgesellschaften will launch a new label. Curtain up for Egmont Graphic Novel! The first program includes seven extraordinary titles - all comics that want to be understood as literature in the sense of fine fiction or the best non-fiction books. Highlights include Étienne Davodeau's "Die Ignoranten", a masterpiece about the similarities between wine and comics, "Sailor Twain" by Mark Siegel, a poetic fairy tale about a boat captain and a mermaid, or the biography of the world-famous physicist Richard Feynman by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick. The entire program will be released in high-quality editions and will be priced between €14.99 and €29.99.
Publisher Alexandra Germann explains the establishment of the label as a consistent further development and complement to the existing publishing portfolio of the Egmont Verlagsgesellschaften with the brands Egmont Comic Collection and Egmont Manga: "As one of the leading providers of graphic literature in the German-speaking world, Egmont has been dealing with storytelling in images in various forms for six decades. We are founding our new label because we want to provide further fertile ground for the flourishing graphic novel segment, because we love comics in all their varieties, and because there are numerous outstanding comic narratives that have not yet made their way into local bookstores."
Initial information about the label can be found at www.egmont-graphic-novel.de.
