SuperMutant Magic Academy [Paperback]

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

TheNew York TimesandNew Yorkerillustrator Jillian Tamaki is best known for co-creating the award-winning young adult graphic novelsSkimandThis One Summermoody 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 Academyhas 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.

Jillian Tamakiis a Canadian illustrator and cartoonist living in Brooklyn, New York. Her illustrations have won gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and the Society of Publication Designers. Tamaki is the co-creator of the graphic novelSkim, which was listed as aNew York TimesBest Illustrated Book of 2008 and was nominated for four Eisner Awards and a Governor General's Literary Award.This One Summer, her secl‡