SuperMutant Magic Academy

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[mutantmagic]

Hi guys, 

SuperMutant Magic Academy was a webcomic that I posted here between 2010 and 2014. A book, which collected all of the strips that appear here, plus new strips, plus a 40-page concluding story, came out earlier this year. To everyone who supported this project, bought a book, or came out to events on the tour, THANKS! 

I am going to stop posting on this tumblr! You can follow my illustration and comic work on my other tumblr (jilliantamaki). If you liked this, maybe you’ll like that, etc.

Other places to follow: twitter (@dirtbagg), an Instagram I have not posted anything at (@jilliantamaki) and an old-timey blog (blog.jilliantamaki.com).

I will leave this site up too. Catch you on the flipside-----

xoJT

[mutantmagic]

Advice, from the SuperMutant Magic Academy book.

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HEY! So some newsy bits:

♪ Hazlitt is running my new series of short comics, called Early Stories. Here’s the first one, Darla! It is semi-SFW.

♪ SMMA appears on the Publishers Weekly’s Best Comics of 2015 list! 

♪ I am going to be at Comic Arts Brooklyn on Nov 7. Signing at the Youth in Decline table at 2, and the Desert Island table at 3.

♪ Later in November, I will be at Kaigai and Design Festa in Tokyo. Details TBD. I post updated itineraries on this page of my website and blow-by-blow action on Twitter.

[lisatrimtrimm]

Inktober day 14: Random Generator Wednesday. Today’s was: “the main character in the last webcomic you read (Marsha from SuperMutant Magic Academy)” and “in the post apocalypse.” Random generator here. 

[mutantmagic]

so cute x

[hrlyquinns]

the mutantmagic girls had fun at dragon*con.

[mutantmagic]

!!!!!

Look at these cute ppl

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[mutantmagic]

FROM THE VAULT: Control 

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LONDON, PPL! I’m going to be at ELCAF this weekend! Deets below!

SAT, JUNE 20 11:00 am - Signing at D+Q booth (until 12pm) 12:15 pm - Springboard Meeting in SPACE Annexe, 129-131 Mare Street  (sorry, these meetings are all booked up!) 3:30 pm - Signing at D+Q booth (until 4:30 pm) SUN, JUN 21 2:30 pm - Signing at D+Q booth (until 3:30pm) 5:30 pm - JILLIAN TAMAKI PANEL with Paul Gravett at SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street (until 6:30 pm) 6:30 pm - Signing at SPACE (until 7:30 pm)

[mutantmagic]

Wendy and Marsha by Lisa Hanawalt!! In the new Drawn & Quarterly 25th anniversary book! I wrote a lil thing about the collection, what D&Q has meant to me, and how I started making comics here. :-)

[mutantmagic]

Thank you!

Hi all, not a lot to report but I did want to say THANKS for coming out to the bookstore tour events and TCAF. It was great meeting and/or catching up with you guys! It’s nice to meet the mysterious “readers” we’re always talking about. And to put an IRL face to an Twitter handle!

SuperMutant Magic Academy is #10 on the NYT Bestsellers List this week! This is cool! My mom is impressed!

What’s next? CAKE (Chicago), ELCAF (London, England), ALA (SF), San Diego Comic-Con, and Autoptic. I post all the specifics on my website. And, like, all my other places online. I dunno. You know how to use the internet.

Photo by IG user leographs.

[heyanniemok]

I interviewed my literal hero, Jillian Tamaki, for The Hairpin. We talk about D&Q’s new collection of her SuperMutant Magic Academy webcomic, for which she’s now touring. Just after I wrote the questions I also got in the mail her Frontier #7 story “SexCoven” from Youth In Decline, which I loved too. This woman!! I can’t even. Except I had to, even, to ask her questions.

[mutantmagic]

An interview with the always-thoughtful Annie Mok.

[mutantmagic]

Will Super Mutant Magic Academy end with the release of the book? Apologies if this question is annoying/has been asked before.

For now, yes! The book version of SuperMutant Magic Academy (on sale now!) includes a 40+ page extended story that wraps up some of the plotlines and hopefully makes it worth shelling out the extra $$. Here’s a page with all sorts of info and where to buy, blah blah blah. :-)

[mutantmagic]

Screenplay

(It was only until halfway through making this that I noticed the premise hinges upon an absurd anachronism [typewriter]. I am such an innocent.)

[mutantmagic]

FROM THE VAULT: Screenplay

[youthindecline]

Frontier #7: Jillian Tamaki is back from the printers, and it looks amazing!!!

Our first issue of the year features a brand new comic by the talented cartoonist and illustrator, Jillian Tamaki. Frontier #7 features the story “SexCoven” which revolves around IRL and online relationships, the seductive and secret world of early internet file-sharing, and life inside a commune (cult?). 32 pages, full-color. For Mature Readers Only

The book is:

Going out to subscribers and pre-orders on Saturday, April 4!

Debuting at MoCCA Fest on April 11 in New York!

Going out to our retailers early next week!

Available now for ordering right now!

Jillian Tamaki is an award winning cartoonist and illustrator. She is the co-author with her cousin Mariko Tamaki of the award-winning graphic novels “This One Summer” and “Skim”, and the author of the forthcoming “SuperMutant Magic Academy” from Drawn & Quarterly. A noted soup enthusiast, Jillian has written and storyboarded two episodes of the show “Adventure Time” and created many lovely zines and minicomics.

[mutantmagic]

Hey! In addition to the SuperMutant Magic Academy book, this lil thing will also come out this month. It’s a 32 page standalone story. Maybe you will like it?! Info below?? <3 

[Also, the “soup enthusiast” part of this blurb refers to this ONE TIME I left Ryan alone at a convention table because I went and ate some soup.]

[mutantmagic]

I AM GOING TO A BILLION PLACES THIS SUMMER! Maybe one of them is near you! Here is a list of places I will be at, either on my official SuperMutant Magic Academy Book Tour or as guests of festivals.

APRIL 11-12, 2015: MOCCA Fest, NYC, NY I will be debuting SexCoven at MoCCA this year! (Please note! SuperMutant Magic Academy will not be available at this event.)

APRIL 18-19, 2015: LA Times Festival of Books, LA, CA (Please note! SuperMutant Magic Academy will not be available at this event.)

APRIL 24, 2015: Book Tour! LOS ANGELES, CA 7:30, Skylight Books

APRIL 28, 2015: Book Tour! TORONTO, ON 7PM, Revival w/Beguiling Books and Art, 783 College Street

MAY 1, 2015: Book Tour! PORTLAND, OR 7:30PM, Powell’s City of Books

MAY 5, 2015: Book Tour! NYC, NY 7PM: Housing Works Bookstore, with WORD

MAY 9-10, 2015: TCAF, TORONTO, ON

JUNE 6-7, 2015: CAKE, CHICAGO, IL

JUNE 20-21, 2015: ELCAF, LONDON, ENGLAND

JUNE 25-30, 2015: ALA Annual Conference: SF, CA (For Librarians and educators.) JULY 24-27, 2015: SDCC, SAN DIEGO, CA

AUGUST 9-10, 2015: AUTOPTIC: MINNEAPOLIS, MD

[mutantmagic]

Into The Sun

[mutantmagic]

Ooh, shots of Drawn and Quarterly's Free Comic Day offering! Flip cover featuring SuperMutant Magic Academy (out in April!) and Kate Beaton's new one, Step Aside, Pops (out in the Fall).

Free Comic Book day is May 2.

[addtadd]

Fanart of Wendy and Marsha from Super Magic Mutant Academy, a superb little comic from the inimitable Jillian Tamaki.  

[mutantmagic]

Cute! Fanart! 

[jilliantamaki]

Last week was a big week!

It feels almost unbelievable to write, but This One Summer, which I co-created with my cousin Mariko Tamaki, won a Caldecott honour and a Printz Award. 

Thanks to librarians, for these honours and, just, generally. To be perfectly honest, Mariko and I never thought we were making YA books when we started with SKIM. It was our publishers and librarians who connected us with this wonderful audience. Thank-you for that. <3

[mutantmagic]

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