"Mixtape"
Genre: Comic Book / Young Adult Existentialism
Length: issues #1-5, 22 pages each; 110 pages in total
Ardden Entertainment
My 9 Reader 'Hot-Button' Considerations:
1. World's Immersion:
Garrison Creek is the small town where our characters have grown up together. In this microcosm of the world, friendships have remained close and familiar through the formative years until now...teens about to forge outward by the end of the summer and high school graduation, entering young adulthood. School hallways of commiseration, house parties of socialization, and the cars some of them are now driving, extend out from the insular bedrooms lined with band posters, and beyond the head-phones of personalized soundtracks. One of their group has burst the bubble, traveling beyond the Creek. At this key juncture she has just returned from Europe.
The chosen music in each character's own headspace, defines their moods, following them through the developments in their lives. This is an early 1990's period piece and writer Brad Abraham has designed stories of expanding YA awareness through the importance of what each young mind was listening to in that time; music as emotional guideposts/gateways of expressing just how big all their personal worlds were becoming...beyond what they knew to be safe.
