Cover Reveal: Adam Rapp & Mike Cavallaro Attempt to Warm an Icy Dystopia in Decelerate Blue
Art by Mike Cavallaro
Publisher First Second tends to operate in two modes: purveyor of hyper-inventive and often educational kids fare (books by Gene Luen Yang, Maris Wicks) and sophisticated adult genre and nonfiction —the comic equivalent of indie film havens like Magnolia Pictures and A24, whose works tend to fly under the radar until they storm best-of-the-year lists.
Adam Rapp and Mike Cavallaro’s Decelerate Blue appears to straddle both of those categories. From the publisher’s description, the graphic novel—out Valentine’s Day 2017—tackles some of Rapp’s favorite beats— malaise, isolation and an ever-distant hope—molded for a teen audience.
In a near-future dystopia where life goes a mile a minute and the populace is kept in a hyper-stimulated haze, teenaged Angela is the only person in her family who seems to think this isn’t a perfectly reasonable way to live. Soon she finds herself recruited into a resistance movement, where the key to rebellion is taking things slow.
