The Waiting Place

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The Waiting Place
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Publication information
Publisher Slave Labor Graphics
Publication date1997 – 2002
No. of issues18
Creative team
Created bySean Kelley McKeever
Written by Sean Kelley McKeever
Artist(s)Brendon & Brian Fraim (vol. 1)
Mike Norton (vol. 2)
Collected editions
Book One ISBN   0-943151-36-8

The Waiting Place is a comic book series created by Sean Kelley McKeever in 1997. Recommended by the author for young adults aged 14+, [1] the series is a teen drama which centres on the lives of a group of teenagers (and one twenty-something) living in the remote American town of Northern Plains. The theme of the series is that characters who live in such towns exist in a 'holding pattern', spending their time waiting for something to happen. McKeever has described the themes of some of his comics, including The Waiting Place, as being "Alienation; coming of age; a burning desire to get on with life." [2] The Waiting Place established McKeever as a writer of high-school stories, and paved the way for his later work for Marvel Comics on titles like Sentinel and Mary Jane .

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Northern Plains, where The Waiting Place is set, is based on Eagle River, Wisconsin, where Sean attended High School.

Publication history

The Waiting Place started life as a self-published comic. McKeever realised that his best chance of breaking into the comics industry was to have a complete comic to show publishers, rather than his writing on its own. He found Brendon and Brian Fraim, and together they produced three issues of The Waiting Place. At a convention they submitted a copy of the self-published comic to Slave Labor Graphics, who liked it and took it on, republishing those early issues themselves too.

Marvel editor, Tom Brevoort, was a fan of The Waiting Place and gave McKeever his first Marvel assignments on the strength of it. [3]

In 2005, Venture Management optioned The Waiting Place, believing it to have the potential to become a TV series. [4]

Characters

Collected editions

The series has been collected into a number of trade paperbacks:

TitleMaterial collectedISBN
The Waiting Place Book OneThe Waiting Place vol. 1 #1–6 ISBN   0-943151-36-8
The Waiting Place Book TwoThe Waiting Place vol. 2 #1-6 ISBN   0-943151-53-8
The Waiting Place Book ThreeThe Waiting Place vol. 2 #7-12 ISBN   0-943151-76-7
The Waiting Place: The Definitive EditionThe Waiting Place Vol. 1 #1-6
The Waiting Place Vol. 2 #1-12		 ISBN   978-1-60010-526-5

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