First Second Books has announced that it will publish two upcoming works by Scott McCloud, the multiple award-winning author of Zot, Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics. First Second plans to publish a McCloud-penned fictional graphic novel, tentatively entitled The Sculptor, in the spring of 2013 followed by a non-fiction work. The agreement with First Second was brokered by Scott McCloud’s literary agent, Judith Hansen of the Hansen Literary Agency.
Understanding Comics, which was published in 1993, has been translated into 16 languages, while Reinventing Comics (2000) and Making Comics (2006) have reinforced his position as one of the premier contemporary theorists of the comics medium. McCloud has won every important domestic comic book prize including Eisner,
