Get an Exclusive Peek at Queer Coming-of-Age Comic Luisa: Now and Then
Cartoonist Carole Maurel’s Transformative Tale Hits Shelves This Week, Adapted by Mariko Tamaki
Art by Carole Maurel
For more than four decades, Humanoids has served as the premiere publisher for Europe’s best (and weirdest) science fiction and fantasy, with names like Moebius, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Juan Gimenez, Milo Manara and Christophe Bec populating their impressive catalogue. This spring, Humanoids launched its Life Drawn imprint, which reveals an entirely different side to the publisher. Timed with Humanoids’ 20th anniversary of publishing in the United States, Life Drawn is, in the words of publisher Fabrice Giger, “grounded in life here on earth, not just out among the stars. Stories that explore inner space, not outer galaxies. Stories that bring out the human in Humanoids.”
This week, Life Drawn publishes French cartoonist Carole Maurel’s Luisa: Now and Then, which has been adapted into English by award-winning creator Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer, Supergirl: Being Super). Luisa tackles familiar queer coming-of-age themes with a time-travel device that makes it perfectly suited to the comic medium. Maurel also covers uncommon territory via the older Luisa, who must reconsider her identity on the cusp of middle age. Check out an exclusive preview of Luisa: Now and Then below, and be sure to check out the graphic novel digitally and in fine comic book stores this Wednesday.
Luisa: Now and Then Cover Art by Carole Maurel
