num_pages: 276
description: Unrequited love underage drinking and teen angst rule at a high school for mutants and witches.The New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Jillian Tamaki is best known for co-creating the award-winning young adult graphic novels Skim and This 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 Tamakis jokes are precise and devastating.SuperMutant Magic Academy has 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 Tamakis account of life at the academy.
language: English
title: SuperMutant Magic Academy
publisher: Drawn and Quarterly