It didn’t take long for Netflix to quickly renew the series for a second and third season. The Heartstopper streaming series gained critical acclaim, boasting a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and scooping up numerous accolades. This success spurned Heartstopper Volumes 3 and 4 and a TV adaptation from Netflix. The webcomic racked up tens and millions of views, while the graphic novels quickly sold over a million copies. Within two hours, she met her funding goal and was able to release limited copies of Heartstopper.īy 2019, Hachette Children’s Group picked up the rights to Heartstopper and widely published Volumes 1 and 2 of the series. It gained such a large following that she turned to Kickstarter for help self-publishing the graphic novel. By 2016, she was uploading portions of Heartstopper to Tumblr as a webcomic. She quickly realized she wanted to continue exploring the characters’ stories, deciding to do so in a graphic novel format. Oseman first introduced her Heartstopper protagonists, Nick Nelson and Charlie Springs, in her 2014 novel, Solitaire. 'The queer graphic novel we wished we had at high school.Alice Oseman, the author of the graphic novel Heartstopper, has announced her plans to end the book series after the release of Volume 6. Read alikes: Bloom by Kevin Panetta Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Keywords: LGBTQ romance, gay romance, graphic novel, relationships, love, friendship, high school, 13 year old, 14 and up, 15 and up, 16 and up, mental illness, loyalty This is the first volume of Heartstopper, with more to come.-from the publisher It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us. Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness.

They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance.īut love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realized. until one day when they're made to sit together. An LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between - for fans of The Art of Being Normal, Holly Bourne and Love, Simon.Ĭharlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met.

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