GRAPHIC UNIVERSE™ – a division of Lerner Publishing Group – to S.B.Rights Agency. Graphic Universe™ launched in 2006 as Lerner Publishing Group’s home for graphic novels. It publishes fiction and nonfiction graphic novels for beginning readers, middle-grade readers, and young adults by industry veterans and up-and-coming talents. The cartoonists and writers of Graphic Universe™ are explorers, chasing down the many possibilities the comics form has to offer.