Minx Imprint Offers Up Graphic Novels For Young Girls

MINX is the fairly new imprint from DC Comics whose graphic nov­els tar­get audi­ence is young, teenage girls.  After read­ing two of them, it’s safe to say that it will appeal to any­one who wants to read about young, strong, female pro­tag­o­nists who tackle famil­iar prob­lems and have a lit­tle fun. There are roman­tic ele­ments in the two that I read. There are six titles for this year and DC announced it’s line up for 2008. I am enthu­si­as­tic about this line as it shows promise from the two  graphic nov­els I’ve read thus far. Thanks to Jolene from the YA YA YAS for review­ing Club­bing which sparked my inter­est from the start. 

Here are the titles being released this year:

• P.L.A.I.N. Janes by Cecil Castel­lucci and illus­trated by Jim Rugg (out now)
• Club­bing by Andi Wat­son and Josh Howard (review coming)
• Re-Gifters by Mike Carey, Sonny Liew, Mare Hempel (review coming)
• Good as Lily by Derek Kirk Kim and Jesse Hamm (out now)
• Kimmie66 by Aaron Alex­ovich (Nov. 7, 2007)
• Con­fes­sions of a Blab­ber­mouth by Mike Carey, Louise Carey, and Aaron Alex­ovich (Sept. 12, 2007) 

And the sneak peek at the 2008 line-up that I found at Comi​press​.com after the jump. If this imprint takes off many of these graphic nov­els will turn into a series.

TOKEN

Noted nov­el­ist Alisa Kwit­ney (Sex as a Sec­ond Lan­guage; Does She Or Doesn’t She; Till The Fat Lady Sings) has received glow­ing reviews in the New York Times Book Review, Book­list, Publisher’s Weekly and Library Jour­nal. Kwit­ney will col­lab­o­rate with Joelle Jones, the crit­i­cally acclaimed artist of 12 Rea­sons Why I Love Her for a tale of teenage romance set against the back­drop of South Beach in the 1980’s. Shira is a nice Jew­ish girl who goes from being a devoted Daddy’s girl to the “worst shoplifter of all time.” Her world changes when she is caught shoplift­ing and she meets Raphael, a fel­low social mis­fit. Can their new friend­ship (and pos­si­ble romance) sur­vive two very dif­fer­ent cul­tures clashing?

· EMIKO SUPERSTAR

Cana­dian per­for­mance artist and nov­el­ist Mariko Tamaki (Skim, Fake ID, Cover Me) is the writer for EMIKO SUPERSTAR, illus­trated by indie favorite Steve Rol­ston (The Escapists; DeGrassi; Queen & Coun­try). Emi, a sixteen-year old babysit­ter, is des­per­ate to break out of the sub­urbs and become part of Toronto’s vibrant art scene. When she takes the stage “bor­row­ing” pas­sages from her bosses’ diary for her per­for­mance, she becomes Emiko Super­star: an instant suc­cess with the art crowd and a keeper of secrets that could ruin her and her bosses lives.

· BURNOUT

Noted author Rebecca Don­ner (Sun­set Ter­races) was the lit­er­ary direc­tor of the fic­tion series at New York’s KGB Bar. For her first graphic novel, she col­lab­o­rates with Inaki Miranda, one of comics’ ris­ing super­star artists (Fables; The Road to Par­adise). In BURNOUT, Danni fol­lows her older, mys­te­ri­ous, soon-to-be-stepbrother Haskell when he sneaks out of the house through his bed­room win­dow and dis­cov­ers his secret: Haskell is a mon­key­wrencher. Haskell, it turns out, spikes trees with the intent to stop cor­po­ra­tions from what he rev­er­ently believes is mass eco­log­i­cal sab­o­tage. It’s a dan­ger­ous, illicit activ­ity and it brings the two teenagers together in sur­pris­ing and dan­ger­ous ways.

· THE NEW YORK FOUR

Renowned graphic novel cre­ator Brian Wood (DMZ, the Eisner-winning DEMO and the forth­com­ing Ver­tigo series North­landers) once again col­lab­o­rates with LOCAL artist Ryan Kelly (Lucifer and Books of Magic). In THE NEW YORK FOUR, Wood and Kelly fol­low the tri­als and tribu­la­tions of four fresh­men dur­ing their first year at a New York City uni­ver­sity as social and aca­d­e­mic pres­sures and con­flict­ing per­son­al­i­ties threaten to unravel their friend­ships as quickly as they’ve been forged.

· ALL NIGHTER

Eisner-nominated car­toon­ist David Hahn (Bite Club, Pri­vate Beach) will bring his story of an angry young punk rocker to Minx with ALL NIGHTER. Art stu­dent and part-time cat bur­glar Kit Bradley enjoys spend­ing her free time hang­ing out with her friends at a local 24-hour diner. When one of them mys­te­ri­ously dis­ap­pears, Kit spear­heads her own search party for the miss­ing girl as her home­town is trans­formed into a media circus.

· POSEUR

Pro­lific and highly-esteemed jour­nal­ist Deb­o­rah Vankin’s writ­ings on lifestyle, cul­ture and the arts have appeared in Vari­ety, The L.A. Times, The New York Times and the Jew­ish Jour­nal of Los Ange­les. For her first graphic novel work, Vankin col­lab­o­rates with illus­tra­tor Rick Mays (Kabuki Agents) to cre­ate POSEUR. Jenna Berry has an after school job many teenagers would be envi­ous of, work­ing as a “house guest for hire” and get­ting paid to party with Hollywood’s rich and famous. When a new friend is in dan­ger of being sent abroad and forced into an arranged mar­riage, Jenna becomes wrapped up in a kid­nap­ping plot that goes hor­ri­bly wrong. This excit­ing work fol­lows the iden­tity strug­gles of three unlikely vic­tims of L.A.‘s Gen­er­a­tion M from the graffiti-tagged hill­sides of Sil­ver Lake to the billion-dollar man­sions of Bel Air.

· CLUBBING IN TOKYO

In CLUBBING IN TOKYO, the sec­ond vol­ume of the series by Eisner-nominated Andi Wat­son (Skele­ton Key, Samu­rai Jam, Love Fights), Josh Howard (Dead@17) and Grazia Lobac­caro (Silent Dance), spoiled goth girl Lot­tie Brooks is sent to Japan to assist her uncle at his Eng­lish lan­guage school. With the help of a friend and her new boyfriend, Lot­tie must unravel a bizarre mys­tery involv­ing poi­soned stu­dents, vam­pire cats, and cos­tumed manga fans, all while strug­gling to adapt to new sur­round­ing that couldn’t get more dif­fer­ent than her home city of London.

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