Award-winning author Katie Cook’s 
beloved, all-ages Webtoon series of magic, mayhem, and vegetables is now a graphic novel: Nothing Special, Volume One: Through the Elder Woods (Ten Speed Graphic; on sale March 5th, 2024). Volume One covers the Webtoon’s first season and will feature never-before-seen material from Cook.
Nothing Special: Volume One follows the life of Callie, a teenager who is friends with the ghost of a radish and whose dad owns a magical antique shop. Callie’s dad won’t let her join him on his collection trips in the magical realm “for her own protection”, so she’s lived her whole life in the human world and considers herself to be nothing special. But on her seventeenth birthday, Callie and her friend Declan find her home in disarray and her dad missing. Signs of a struggle point to the portal to the magical realm, and it’s up to Callie, Declan, and Radish to band together and bring him home. As they face creatures good and bad, and all sorts of adventure, Callie and Declan may just find out that they are both special in their own ways after all.
Featuring quirky characters and heartwarming adventures Nothing Special: Through the Elder Woods is the launch of an exciting new series about friendship, family, and finding your place in the world that is sure to appeal to fantasy and comics lovers of all ages.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Katie Cook is the creator of the Nothing Special webcomic on Webtoon and the oldie-but-goodie webcomic Gronk: A Monster’s Story (which was one of the first webcomics archived by the Library of Congress!). She spent several years as one of the primary writers on IDW’s My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic comics to the point that they made her a pony on the show (really). She has also written and drawn comics for Marvel, Disney Publishing, Boom! and many other publishers. Nothing Special: Volume One is her first original graphic novel.
Praise for Nothing Special, Volume One: Through the Elder Woods:
“Inventive, funny, adventurous, action-packed, and romantic? It’s not fair that Nothing Special somehow does it all. Katie Cook is making the rest of us look bad. “ —Ryan North, New York Times bestselling author of Danger and Other Unknown Risks
“Katie Cook’s Nothing Special is, in fact, ridiculously special, as I’ve been saying since Day One. Full of humor, heart, magic, adventure and ghost radishes, the storytelling is spellbinding and the art is joyous. That this wonderful comic is collected in this gorgeous volume is to be celebrated!” —John Kovalic, creator of Dork Tower
“Katie Cook gets it. She blends humor, charm, action, romance, and fantasy so masterfully that I sometimes hate her. Just how powerful a storyteller is Katie? Well, I never thought a dead radish would make me cry, and yet here we are.” —Jarrett Melendez, Eisner- and GLAAD-nominated author of Chef’s Kiss
“Bursting with sweetness and adventure! Nothing Special will easily capture your heart.”
—Tillie Walden, Eisner-winning author of On A Sunbeam
ABOUT TEN SPEED GRAPHIC:
Ten Speed Graphic is a new imprint from Ten Speed Press that publishes distinctive, high-quality graphic books from a diverse array of the industry’s top creators and emerging voices, including literary adaptations, global webcomics, biography, memoir, history, how-to, fiction, and licensed entertainment titles.
Nothing Special, Volume One: Through the Elder Woods By Katie Cook
Ten Speed Graphic; on sale March 5th, 2024
ISBN: 9781984862822 • $29.00 • Hardcover • 416 pages
ISBN: 9781984862839 • $22.99 • Trade Paperback • 416 pages
