Papercutz Gets Bigger...

Papercutz - American company NBM's imprint for young readers - has created a new position of marketing director and filled it with Janna Morishima, formerly of Scholastic and Diamond Comics.

Morishima started in publishing with Scholastic and was a founding editor of its Graphix line of graphic novels, where she helped bring Jeff Smith's Bone to colour to a much wider audience as well as launching Raina Telgemeier's successful graphic novel adaptation of The Babysitters Club series by Ann Martin. She then went on to become Director of Diamond Kids at Diamond Book Distributors, in charge of its general trade distribution clients' growing kids' lines, that included helping Francoise Mouly to launch her pioneering Toon Books line for very young children. She pushed for, and helped to implement, brand new children's graphic novel sections in chain stores and elsewhere.

"We're very excited to welcome Janna to our team as Papercutz experiences explosive growth with such licenses as The Smurfs and now Ninjago which has debuted with a 200,000 copy print run," said Publisher Terry Nantier. "I've known her for a few years already and with her combined experience of editing and marketing children's graphic novels and this, from the very start of this category's introduction and growth, she will bring an added dimension of knowledge and energy. Anybody who knows her can see what a dynamo she is! She will bring boundless enthusiasm to our line and aggressive goals."

"I love how graphic novels attract such a wide range of readers, from diehard bookworms to the most reluctant readers," Janna Morishima said, "so when Papercutz offered me the opportunity to help spread the word about their fun and burgeoning line of children's graphic novels, I was happy to accept."

Papercutz was launched in 2005 revolutionizing evergreens Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys bringing them to comics for today's American generation. It has since added such bestsellers as Geronimo Stilton, Classics Illustrated, Disney Fairies, and many more besides such as The Smurfs and Lego Ninjago.

Next year Papercutz will launch all new comics of The Three Stooges right before a new major motion picture from Fox and off the back of a very successfully relaunch on Cartoon Network this year a new Power Rangers comic, plus we are informed there are many more series in the works.

For more information visit: www.papercutz.com and www.nbmpub.com