You’ll flip for The Pancake Trap, a brand new Oni Press graphic novel from Stephanie Young and Allyson Lassiter. You see-rup what we did there? We’ll butter you up with puns, then let you check out a preview of the book, below.
“I cooked up the idea for THE PANCAKE TRAP based on my obsession with pancakes, my love of adventure movies, and a fight I had with my sister,” said Young via press release. “Luckily, the fight is long forgotten, but my passions for pancakes and treasure hunts are still going strong.”
Added Lassiter, “THE PANCAKE TRAP is just the type of story I love. It has adventure, heart, and novelty-sized danger. I am so happy that I got the chance to help bring Steph’s book to life for today’s kids to read late at night under their bedsheets with a flashlight, the way I enjoyed all my favorite books and comics as a kid.”
The Pancake Trap Preview
Check out 13 pages and the cover from the June 2026, publishing graphic novel here! Click the thumbnails for a larger version:
The Pancake Trap Official Synopsis:
This June, meet Maple and Margaret Sanford, two sisters who couldn’t be more different. Ten-year-old Maple is a pancake-obsessed griddle cook determined to save their grandma’s failing restaurant, Dot’s Diner. Margaret is a college-bound beauty queen who can’t wait for their mom to sell the run-down restaurant. On the last day before Dot’s Diner will be sold to the town’s multimillionaire mogul, the girls are thrown into a dangerous food-themed treasure hunt, looking for gold left by runaway outlaw Crispy Cruller. Joined by a trusty friend, a helpful robot drone, and an adorable pup, Maple and Margaret will dive deep into the twisted caves and caverns underneath their town facing one syrup-sticky flapjack trap after another. With nothing more than their grandma’s cookbook clues to guide them, will the Sanford Sisters be able to put their differences aside, find the loot, and save Dot’s Diner before it’s too late?
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