"Creators Wood and Dozerdraws are, like Dylan, both nonbinary, adding empathic, multilayered nuance to their exceptional collaboration."
Description
Former best friends Dylan Render and Leighton Worthington attempt to successfully navigate their way through a summer camp for troubled youth. They both need a good evaluation at the camp. Otherwise, they’ll be sent away, unable to attend high school with their friends. While participating in camp activities and chores, Dylan and Leighton rexamine the events that led up to the incident that sent them to camp, the incident that threatens their futures and their friendship with each other.
Pages216
Released2023
LanguageEnglish
PublisherMad Cave Studios
ISBN9781960578426
SellerSimon & Schuster
About the author(s)
Jennie Wood is a non-binary author, musician, and animal rescue volunteer. They created the acclaimed graphic novel series Flutter with artist Jeff McComsey, hailed by The Advocate as one of the best LGBTQ graphic novels of its time. Their 2023 graphic novel Paper Planes earned a Next Generation Indie Book Award and an IPPY Bronze Medal. Earlier, their YA novel A Boy Like Me was named one of Foreword Reviews’ 10 Best Indie YA novels (2014) and was an INDIEFAB and Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist. Wood has also contributed to high-profile anthologies, including the best-selling FUBAR series and the Eisner-winning anthology Love Is Love. They live in Boston with their partner Natalie and their rescue dog Moxie. For more, visit jenniewood.com.
Dozer is a nonbinary illustrator, comic artist and bird parent from Germany. They've done work on BOOM! Studios' Lumberjanes, several German TV and movie illustration and animation gigs, and their own wrestling fan-comic. They are always looking for new exciting stories and diverse characters to illustrate!
Reviews
A queer coming-of-age story that embraces the mess and complexity of identity and relationships.
"[...] A simultaneously hopeful and sobering reminder that growing up sometimes means growing apart."
