Oni Press announced the 2026 release of The Pancake Trap, a middle-grade graphic novel by Stephanie Young and Allyson Lassiter.
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?
“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 writer Stephanie Young in a press release from Oni Press. “Luckily, the fight is long forgotten, but my passions for pancakes and treasure hunts are still going strong.”
The Pancake Trap arrives in June 2026.
