Kami's solo series, The Legion, includes Unbreakable, an instant New York Times bestseller, and its sequel, Unmarked, both of which were nominated for Bram Stoker Awards. Beautiful Creatures has been published in 50 countries and translated into 39 languages. Kami Garcia is the #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures and Dangerous Creatures novels. Beast Boy explores self-discovery and acceptance, with a focus on the value of true friendship. Raven and Beast Boy are an incredible team together on the Teen Titans! But who were they before they joined.and before they even met? Follow Raven Roth and Garfield Logan on their journeys through high school.and self-discovery.Īvailable for the first time in hardcover format, Teen Titans: Raven and Teen Titans: Beast Boy is the box set you don't want to miss! Raven brings readers a tale of finding the strength to face who you are and learning to trust others-and yourself. Look for Teen Titans Raven graphic novel this July from DC Comics.Raven Roth and Garfield Logan are two regular teens.with some seriously unique lives! Author Kami Garcia and artist Gabriel Picolo's New York Times bestselling book Teen Titans: Raven is collected with its followup Teen Titans: Beast Boy in this incredible HARDCOVER box set! I’d like to thank Gabriel Picolo for taking the time to do this interview. GP: But if you are a fan of Slade, you might have a surprise in the Raven novel. In my own version of the casual Teen Titans, I have a vision for Red X and The Hive. GP: To be honest, Slade was the only character that I still haven’t found a way to connect to the other Titans. I’m curious, even if he doesn’t appear in the graphic novels, what would your interpretation of Slade be? I’m glad that Kami is passionate about trying to crack that character. TWJ: Raven’s a very important character to a lot of people, myself included. I absolutely love her writing! When we were doing Raven she was very very close to the character. I can’t say whether it’s going to be exactly that way in the comics because I’m working with Kami Garcia. GP: This is my own vision for the characters from my own drawings. So, he feels a little more relatable as opposed to being “the robot guy.” Cyborg’s mechanical parts are modeled after prosthetics. Which is also a very teenage thing having your body change. He’s trying to deal with an accident that changed his body. She’s not just from another country, she’s from another planet. GP: Starfire is this alien girl who’s just trying to fit in. I drew a scene where Robin finally tells the team that he’s Red-X. So Robin is dealing with his secret persona and hiding it away from the other Titans. GP: Robin is dealing with this secret persona of his, Red-X, which is from the cartoon. GP: Beast Boy has all of these pets and is focused on saving local animals. The writer Kami Garcia, fleshed out the character way better than I did. It’s not going to be like that in the new story. GP: I imagined Raven as this goth girl who has this cursed raven following her all the time. TWJ: Tell me about your unique take on each Titan. Their powers are still incomplete I love that about them and that’s exactly what the novels are about. The Teen Titans can maybe save their neighborhoods or their city. They aren’t like the Justice League, who have full-time jobs as superheroes saving the whole world. That what I like so much about the Teen Titans. They aren’t fully fledged superheroes, they’re still figuring stuff out. The story is about how each Titan got their powers in the first place and how they’re dealing with them at such a young age. They hang out, play games, and go to parties. Your take on the Teen Titans would appeal to teenagers because they’re actually behaving like real teenagers. Now I’m getting to work for them and I’m very grateful for that. When DC saw my work, everything kind of fell into place. They’re focusing on a new sort of reader not the usual “comic book” style. DC Zoom is targeted toward middle-grade and DC Ink is for the YA audience. DC just released new imprints called DC Ink and DC Zoom. GP: I won’t say they’re exactly my renditions but they’re pretty close. TWJ: So you’re working on a series of YA original graphic novels featuring your renditions of the Teen Titans? They hired me to draw a series of graphic novels for the Teen Titans. The more I did that, the more people enjoyed it, and at some point DC also enjoyed it. When I started drawing, people resonated with the content so much that I just kept going fleshing out their personalities as humans outside of their daily jobs as superheroes. I didn’t see enough of that in the comics or the TV show I used to love so much. Gabriel Picolo: So, my idea was to draw those characters that I liked doing teenage stuff.
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