Publishers Weekly reports that Craig Thompson, creator of Blankets and the much-discussed Habibi, has signed with Scholastic to do a children's graphic novel called Space Dumplins. In a (NSFW) blog post last December, Thompson said he was working on three books: a children's graphic novel, a nonfiction book about "global trade," and an erotic graphic novel. Apparently this one has taken over, for now.

Thompson's agent, PJ Mark, describes the book as the story of "a little girl and her misfit friends who set out to rescue her father from the belly of a planet-eating space whale." Sounds like fun, and if there's anyone who can market the heck out of this book, it's Scholastic, which also publishes Jeff Smith's Bone, Raina Telgemeier's Smile and Drama, Kazu Kibuishi's Amulet series, and Doug TenNapel's Bad Island and Cardboard.