Julio Anta & Gabi Mendez’s Bull Hill Graphic Novels for Six Figures
| Speak Up Santiago is the first book in the Bull Hill graphic novel series by Julio Anta (Frontera) and Gabi Mendez (Lo and Behold). And, with a second untitled Bull Hill graphic novel, Shana Corey at Random House has bought world rights for an unnamed six-figure sum.
The first book follows 12-year-old NYC kid Santiago, the son of a Colombian American father and white American mother. Santi isn't fluent in Spanish, so when he spends a summer upstate with his Spanish-speaking Abuela and joins a soccer team made up of…