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Giant Days #1

John Allison (scarygoround​) is a talented comics creator who has established himself over the past few years as a masterful crafter of hip, delicate stories about adolescence.  Allison understands the rhythms of youth, the torrential volatility of young people’s emotional lives, the deep bonds of their friendships and rivalries.  He also brings to his comics an energy and sense of humor that puts his work in the pantheon of such established books about the passage into adulthood as the early years of Love & Rockets, Scott Pilgrim or Ghost World.

It’s exciting to see Allison’s latest, Giant Days, getting a wider release than his earlier books Giant Days: Year One and Expecting to Fly.  Those previous editions were self-published by Allison’s Scary Go Round imprint, while this new book is published by Boom! Box, where it will be very much at home among books like Lumerbjanes and Teen Dog.  Hopefully being with a larger publisher will bring more attention to Allison’s work.  He deserves it.

Giant Days tells the angsty and frequently hilarious story of three radically different teens thrown together by the college experience.  Cynical pragmatist Susan, hotheaded punk Esther and space cadet Daisy may have been thrown together by a chance of collegiate housing, but their mismatched dynamic balances out into perfect trinity of diverging styles and personalities.  In the first issue of the new series, Esther attempts to reduce the storm of drama that constantly surrounds her, while Daisy in confronted with an unwelcome figure from her past.

[Read Giant Days #1 on comiXology]

Harris Smith is a Brooklyn-based comics and media professional. In addition to his role as a Senior Production Coordinator at comiXology, he edits several comics anthologies, including Jeans and Felony Comics, under the banner of Negative Pleasure Publications. He’s also the host of the weekly radio show Neagtive Pleasure on Newtown Radio.