Vertigo Plans Neil Young Graphic Novel; New Minx Titles

Neil Young (© 1976 Mark Estabrook)
Neil Young (© 1976 Mark Estabrook)
DC Comics announced it will publish a graphic novel created by acclaimed musician Neil Young through its Vertigo imprint and also released plans for new graphic novels from Minx, its comics imprint for teenage girls—including a sequel to Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg’s The Plain Janes, one of the first Minx titles released this year.

Young will create a graphic novel based on his 2003 album Greendale, which tells the story of Sun Green, a fictional California teen with a growing sense of political activism. Young will collaborate on the book with writer Joshua Dysart (who wrote Make 5 Wishes, Del Rey’s just published original manga by Avril Lavigne) and artist Sean Murphy. “I met Neil about year ago,” said Vertigo executive editor Karen Berger. “He approached us. He loves comics and he’s been following all the attention for graphic novels that’s going on.” Berger said the book will reflect Young’s  activist bent, “much like the rest of his creative work. It’s his baby, and he’ll have a big hand in producing the book and promoting it later on.”

Berger announced the second round of titles to come from Minx, including the imprint’s first sequel, Janes in Love by Castellucci and Rugg, which will follow the Plain Janes, a group of teens who create anonymous art installations. Also among the other Minx books, all coming in 2008, is Token, a first graphic novel by writer Alisa Kwitney, about a nice Jewish girl who gets busted for shoplifting and her subsequent romance with a fellow social misfit, with art by Joelle Jones (12 Reasons Why I Love Her).

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