Get Ready to Flip for the Tasty, Treasure-Hunting Middle-Grade Graphic Novel The Pancake Trap!

Oni Press has announced a new adventure from creative duo Stephanie Young and Allyson Lassiter, The Pancake Trap, a middle-grade graphic novel stacked full of foodie hijinks as two sisters learn that love is thicker than batter. 

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?

Bring your appetite for adventure, sisterly bonds, and diner darlings when The Pancake Trap releases June 2026!