Publishers Weekly | January 18, 2010

First Second editorial director Mark Siegel, a critically lauded cartoonist, children’s book illustrator and designer in his own right, is launching an original web comic, Sailor Twain or the Mermaid in the Hudson, that will begin serializing January 28 at SailorTwain.com with new material posted three days a week. And in an unusual move for a traditional book publisher, once completed Siegel’s web comic series will also be published as a book collection by First Second. The print book deal was negotiated by agent Tanya McKinnon of the Victoria Sanders & Associates.