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Comics & Graphic Novels Contemporary Women

Towerkind

by (artist) Kat Verhoeven

Publisher
Conundrum Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2015
Category
Contemporary Women
Recommended Age
13 to 18
Recommended Grade
8 to 12
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894994910
    Publish Date
    Apr 2015
    List Price
    $15

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Description

Towerkind is an oblique end-of-the-world story seen through the eyes of a diverse group of children in Toronto's St James Town, a neighbourhood of densely populated high rise apartments. The kids in this "towerhood" become aware of an impending catastrophe through a number of supernatural abilities. Among other characters super strong Ty is a self-proclaimed monarch, Mackenzie uses her death magic to meddle, and language savant Mose would prefer to be left alone. Something is revealing itself through cracks and crevices, and through the children in the neighbourhood. Birds are falling from the sky. Originally done as a series of minis that was nominated for an Ignatz Award, Towerkind is a true page-turner.

About the author

Kat Verhoeven is a maker of comics by web and by print from a small studio in Toronto. She also dabbles in indie game making. Her stories are of loneliness, struggle and inconclusive endings. Verhoeven continues to work on the web comic Meat&Bone about eating-disordered Anne, her roommates, and their cat. You can read her short stories in KUS, Puppyteeth and Wolfen Jump among other anthologies. Towerkind is her first book.

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