It's finally here!!! after a bunch of delays the GN I've been working on with the amazing author Jennie Wood for one and a half years has officially been released! 🚀🏕💘🌈

You can pick up Paper Planes at comic stores or order through the MadCave site (US, Canada and Puerto Rico only)

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Paper Planes by Jennie Wood, Dozerdraws and Micah Myers

After a life altering incident, Dylan and Leighton are sent to a summer camp for troubled youth. Can Dylan and Leighton save their friendship and protect their future while trying to survive camp?

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.

Paper Planes

Paper Planes by Jennie Wood and Dozerdraws, lettering by Micah Myers

there are so many things to like about this graphic novel! the art is very charming and clear--i especially love the way flashbacks have a slightly muted color palette--and the story really embraces complications of modern queer adolescence that i feel like i wasn't seeing in comics for kids back when i was bookselling 10-ish years ago. (the publisher rates this one as for "all audiences," and it definitely has enough substance for grownup readers, but personally i would shelve it with middle grade.) i love the way we get so much story through interspersed flashbacks, doling out information and building up to how these two characters ended up in the present being awkward around each other at camp they don't seem to have chosen. there's a little bit of mystery, interpersonal drama, and the really lovely throughline of the paper planes connecting Dylan and Leighton and then further connecting them to the people around them.

also it's great to see so much ordinary diversity! queer diversity for sure, but also diversity of bodies, of class, and of race, all in that perfect space between "looking diverse without addressing any issue directly" and "addressing every possible issue with the most fraught language and anxiety possible." the characters and their lives and identities feel real and specific, and it pleases me to no end that though Dylan and Leighton each struggle with how their queer identities (nonbinary and asexual, respectively) are received or suppressed by others, they have very few qualms about these identities within themselves--they're both frank and sure about who they are and what they feel.

and that's something else i loved about this book: nobody is only one thing. nobody makes only bad choices or good choices, is only accepting or only biased, and in the end every relationship is in a place of tenuous connection that feels very true to how people grow, and how relationships shift and change. all in all, this was a great read!

the deets

how i read it: an e-galley from NetGalley! i think this is the first time i've read a graphic novel galley, and though digital is not my preferred mode for art-heavy things, it worked well enough. i will likely pick up a physical copy when it comes out!

try this if you: like a good queer bildungsroman, appreciate non-chronological storytelling, dig a nuanced look at that weird summer between middle school and high school, or ever got in big trouble with your best friend.

a panel i really liked: this first one has real Somewhere Out There energy to me

bonus: i love this background kid at camp who looks like me and also hates math, i see you honey

pub date: July 18, 2023!

Acclaimed YA OGN Paper Planes Sells Out and gets a 2nd Printing

Acclaimed YA OGN Paper Planes Sells Out and gets a 2nd Printing #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

One of the most critically acclaimed YA OGNS of 2023, Paper Planes– by Eisner award-winning author Jennie Wood with art by Dozerdraws, and letters by Micah Myers– has completely sold out is getting a reprint arriving December 2023.  High schoolers Leighton Worthington and Dylan Render have always been inseparable, but when they’re both shipped off to a summer camp for troubled youth in the…

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Review: Paper Planes

Author: Jennie WoodArtist: DozerdrawsPublisher: Mad Cave StudiosReleased: May 16, 2023Received: NetGalley Summary: Dylan Render and Leighton Worthington used to be best friends. Like many high-schoolers, their friendship has faded, thanks to drama and other concerns. If not for their time at summer camp (for troubled youths), they may never have had the opportunity to repair the damage…

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Paper Planes

By Jennie Wood / 3 stars

(Publication date June 27, 2023)

A fast read graphic novel with some serious, thought provoking undertones. When friends Dylan and Leighton are sent to a summer camp in the aftermath of an accident, it leads them to think back through their friendship. And ask questions about how they may be able to retain their friendship moving forward.

They come from different backgrounds, with different expectations placed upon them. Moving forward, they have to decide: can they be happy pretending to be someone they aren't? How much is parent approval worth? What are they willing to give up? What will it cost them?

Thank you to the publishers through Netgalley for providing me with an arc.

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I just found out that except of Banny and Jenny, Susan is a lesbo too

More of them queers!!! MORE, MOREEE, MOOR-

one way or another, i’m gonna find ya!

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♥︎' jennie ( blackpink ) personalização !

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walter file stuff too

walten files dump, these are from last years february, when i checked it out. I really like the style i did for these.

Preview: Paper Planes

Paper Planes preview. Former best friends Dylan Render and Leighton Worthington attempt to successfully navigate their way through a summer camp for troubled youth #comics #comicbooks

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