Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99429 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-27
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Synopsis
This work introduces Minx - a new line of graphic novels for young adults! When Jane is forced to move from the cool confines of Metro City to suburbia, she thinks her life is over. But in the school lunch room - at the reject table - she finds her tribe: three other girls named Jane. "Main" Jane encourages them to form a secret art gang and paint the town P.L.A.I.N.: People Loving Art In Neighbourhoods. But can art attacks really save Jane from the hell that is high school? From bestselling Young Adult writer Cecil Castellucci ("Boy Proof", "The Queen of Cool") and acclaimed indie artist Jim Rugg ("Street Angel") comes an unmissable story about friendship, art, and the highs and lows of high school!

Customer Reviews

Gripping Entertainment
The new Minx series is sweeping away 50 years of tired fantasy-led men-in-tight-spandex nerd and geek-dominated comic book history in the US and UK.

This latest offering captures exactly the existentialism of being a teenage girl transported by her parents to a new location and high school. The artwork is first-class in crisp and clear monochrome. The backplot concerns the aftermath of a bombing in somewhere like London - but the real plots are about the need for friendship, the angst of teenage relationships and the redeeming value of art as subversion of the status quo.

It's simply wonderful. The writer, Cecil Castelucci, who also has one of the world's funniest blogs - check it out - seems to have dropped from the sky as the new messiah of the comic book industry.

It is good to be P.L.A.I.N
Don't overlook this because it is a graphic novel. The storyline is very orignal and fresh, the characters are all well developed in their own way and the dialogue is inventive. (and thankfully, it veers away from tired high-school story cliches that are only concerned with make-up and boys, this is a story about being inventive and orignal.)

Fans of Joss Whedon style stories and high-school novels will enjoy this, but this book is for everyone.