DC's Young Animal

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Young Animal
Parent company DC Comics
Founded2016;9 years ago (2016)
Defunct2021;4 years ago (2021)
Key peopleMark Doyle (executive editor)
Jamie S. Rich (group editor)
Gerard Way (curator) [1]
Publication types Comic books

DC's Young Animal was a "pop-up" [2] imprint of DC Comics started in 2016. [3] It was developed in collaboration with Gerard Way, an American musician and comic book writer, author of The Umbrella Academy . Its main focus was to relaunch characters and settings from the DC Universe in stories for mature readers, done with a more experimental approach than DC's primary line of superhero comics. The line was overseen by Vertigo group editor Jamie S. Rich and executive editor Mark Doyle. [4]

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Gerard Way said that a shared theme of the Young Animal comics is "relationships between parents and children". Other themes he has cited are alienation, fame, change ("self-actualization and becoming something else"), as well as bullying, teenagers and drug use (in Shade, the Changing Girl), and eventually "a lot of personal stuff for me in Doom Patrol that deals with mature themes". [5]

History

The imprint launched in late 2016 with four ongoing series: Doom Patrol , Shade the Changing Girl , Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye, and Mother Panic , followed in 2017 by a 6-issue limited series Bug! The Adventures of Forager . In the middle of 2018 was a five-part crossover involving members of the Justice League, which was called Milk Wars . Three of the series were then relaunched as Shade the Changing Woman, Cave Carson Has an Interstellar Eye, and Mother Panic: Gotham A.D., running for 6 issues under those names, along with the new title Eternity Girl, which also ran for 6 issues. The line was placed on hold in August 2018, with the 12th issue of the delayed Doom Patrol series going on sale the following October. [6]

One of the "Young Animal" titles, Doom Patrol resumed in July 2019, and was joined by two new titles, Far Sector and Collapser. [2]

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References

  1. The Secret Origin & Ambitious Future of DC's YOUNG ANIMAL "Building and curating an imprint like Young Animal, you [...]".
  2. 1 2 3 4 "DC'S YOUNG ANIMAL RETURNS THIS JULY WITH MORE DOOM PATROL, PLUS NEW LINEUP OF GENRE-PUSHING TITLES". DC. 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  3. "DC Expands Beyond Superheroes with Young Animal", Comic Vine. Retrieved August 15, 2016
  4. "DC Entertainment Expands Editorial Leadership Team". DC. 2017-05-05. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  5. "Gerard Way Talks New DC Comics Imprint". Rolling Stone . 8 April 2016.
  6. Pulliam-Moore, Charles (May 10, 2018). "DC's Excellent Young Animal Imprint Is Coming to an End". io9 . Retrieved August 12, 2018.
  7. "SHADE, THE CHANGING GIRL #1 | DC". Dccomics.com. 2016-10-05. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  8. "MOTHER PANIC #1 | DC". Dccomics.com. 2016-11-09. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  9. "Gerard Way and Jon Rivera Talk DC's Young Animal: "What Can We Do To Help Change Comics?"". DC.
  10. "DOOM PATROL #1 | DC". Dccomics.com. 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  11. "CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE #1 | DC". Dccomics.com. 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  12. (February 14, 2017), "The Allred family pays tribute to Jack Kirby in Young Animal's Bug", The A.V. Club. Retrieved February 16, 2017
  13. "VERTIGO AND DC'S YOUNG ANIMAL ANNOUNCE COMPELLING NEW SERIES AT NYCC". DC. 2017-10-07. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
  14. "ETERNITY GIRL #1". DC. 2017-12-18. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
  15. "DC Garners Seventeen 2021 Eisner Award Nominations". DC Comics. 9 June 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-06-09. Retrieved June 10, 2021.