‘Night And Dana’ Exclusive Preview: Horror-Obsessed Teens Meet Climate Change In New Graphic Novel
Every day it feels harder and harder to pretend that the world isn’t both literally and figuratively on fire. We have to live life like everything is fine when it very much isn’t. Cartoonist Anya Davidson channels that experience and the anxiety that follows in her new graphic novel Night and Dana from Graphic Universe™, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group.
Read the full synopsis below:
Dana Drucker fights boredom in her Florida beach town by crafting special-effects makeup—the more gruesome, the better. But when a messy prank with Dana’s best friend Lily gets the wrong kind of attention, the girls have two choices: find a new creative outlet or leave high school without graduating. To save their shot at diplomas, Dana and Lily join a community college film class. It gives Dana a chance to keep practicing her monster makeup, as she and Lily start work on a horror movie inspired by local ocean warming. A search for filming locations puts Dana in the path of Daphne Ocean, an activist and self-proclaimed water witch—the perfect kind of inspiring outsider.
But when filming starts, Dana finds herself growing apart from Lily, who doesn’t seem to need her closest friend much anymore. Soon, tempers are flaring, and Dana’s pushing away old friends and her new mentor. But as everything starts going up in flames, Dana also begins to forge her voice.
Read our exclusive excerpt from Night and Dana below!
“I caught the horror bug at the same time, in early adolescence, as I began to develop a sense of political awareness, and those interests of mine are inextricably linked,” said creator Anya Davidson. “With Night and Dana, I knew I wanted to tell a coming-of-age story about horror-obsessed teens, but I also knew I wanted to depict activists organizing.”
Night and Dana is now available wherever you buy your books.
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