Luck of the Draw

Comics creators had a major presence at the American Library Association’s annual conference, where the Graphic Novel and Comics Roundtable convened for its eighth year to strengthen librarians’ connections with the world of graphic storytelling. Comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly is defending Vermont cartoonist laureate Tillie Walden’s new graphic history Charity and Sylvia after a scholar alleged that the title is an unauthorized adaptation of her own book of the same name. And, with the release of the highly anticipated third book in Min Jin Lee’s Diaspora Quartet fast approaching, we talked with the author about her path to becoming a novelist and the inspiration behind American Hagwon. In other news, Supreme Court justices’ income from book royalties and advances topped $2.4 million in 2025, according to Courthouse News, not counting Justice Samuel Alito’s upcoming book, out this fall. Penguin Random House and BBC Studios will publish the first-ever Bluey audiobook this fall, per Deadline, which also reports that Children of Blood and Bone author Tomi Adeyemi is boycotting the forthcoming film adaptation of her YA hit. New Hampshire’s Republican governor Kelly Ayotte has once again vetoed a bill to make it easier to ban books in public schools, per the New Hampshire Bulletin. Meanwhile, the library commission in Austin, Tex., is pushing for the city to become a “Book Safe Harbor,” the Austin Current reports. And Katherine Trowbridge, Titan Publishing Group’s longtime U.S. publicity head, has died at 68.