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SuperMutant Magic Academy

$22.95

by Jillian Tamaki

Unrequited love, underage drinking, and teen angst rule at a high school for mutants and witches

Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: 9781770461987
SKU: 9781770461987 Categories: , , , Product ID: 27650

Description

Unrequited love, underage drinking, and teen angst rule at a high school for mutants and witches

The New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Jillian Tamaki is best known for co-creating the award-winning young adult graphic novels Skim and This One Summer–moody and atmospheric bestsellers. SuperMutant Magic Academy, which she has been serializing online for the past four years, paints a teenaged world filled with just as much ennui and uncertainty, but also with a sharp dose of humor and irreverence. Tamaki deftly plays superhero and high-school Hollywood tropes against what adolescence is really like: The SuperMutant Magic Academy is a prep school for mutants and witches, but their paranormal abilities take a backseat to everyday teen concerns.

Science experiments go awry, bake sales are upstaged, and the new kid at school is a cat who will determine the course of human destiny. In one strip, lizard-headed Trixie frets about her nonexistent modeling career; in another, the immortal Everlasting Boy tries to escape this mortal coil to no avail. Throughout it all, closeted Marsha obsesses about her unrequited crush, the cat-eared Wendy. Whether the magic is mundane or miraculous, Tamaki’s jokes are precise and devastating.

SuperMutant Magic Academy has won two Ignatz Awards. This volume combines the most popular content from the webcomic with a selection of all-new, never-before-seen strips that conclude Tamaki’s account of life at the academy.

SuperMutant Magic Academy captures all of the teen angst you’ll find at a school for magical mutants–or any school at all. — io9

224 page black and white paperback
Drawn & Quarterly, 2015

Additional information

Weight 25 oz
Dimensions 10 × 7 × 0.5 in
by

Jillian Tamaki

ISBN

9781770461987