Publication types Comic books Founder Gerard Way | Parent organization DC Comics (Time Warner) Founded 2016 | |
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Parent company DC Comics (Time Warner) Key people Jamie S. Rich (Editor), Gerard Way (Curator and Writer) | ||
Young Animal (trademarked as DC's Young Animal) is an imprint of DC Comics founded in 2016. It was developed in collaboration with Gerard Way, an American musician and comic book writer, author of the Eisner Award-winning The Umbrella Academy. Its main focus is to feature characters and settings from the DC Universe in stories for mature readers, done with a more experimental approach than DC's primary line of superhero comics.
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Titles
The imprint's first four titles were a reboot of the Doom Patrol, Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye, Mother Panic, and a new version of Shade, the Changing Man titled Shade, the Changing Girl.
Objectives and themes
Young Animal is an adult comic imprint. Despite noting that comics are very different from each other, Way has pointed out that there is a lot of "relationships between parents and children." Other themes he has pointed out are alienation, fame, change ("self-actualization and becoming something else"), as well as adolescents and drug use (in Shade, the Changing Girl) and eventually "a lot of personal stuff for me in Doom Patrol that deals with mature themes".