| Parent company | DC Comics |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2016 |
| Key people | Mark Doyle (executive editor) Jamie S. Rich (group editor) Gerard Way (curator)[1] |
| Publication types | Comic books |
DC's Young Animal is a "pop-up"[2] imprint of DC Comics started in 2016.[3] It was developed in collaboration with Gerard Way, an American musician and comic book writer, author of The Umbrella Academy. Its main focus is to relaunch 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. The line has been overseen by Vertigo group editor Jamie S. Rich and executive editor Mark Doyle.[4]
Gerard Way has said that a shared theme of the Young Animal comics is "relationships between parents and children". Other themes he has cited are alienation, fame, change ("self-actualization and becoming something else"), as well as bullying, teenagers 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".[5]
- ^ The Secret Origin & Ambitious Future of DC's YOUNG ANIMAL "Building and curating an imprint like Young Animal, you [...]".
- ^ "DC'S YOUNG ANIMAL RETURNS THIS JULY WITH MORE DOOM PATROL, PLUS NEW LINEUP OF GENRE-PUSHING TITLES". DC. 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
- ^ "DC Expands Beyond Superheroes with Young Animal", Comic Vine. Retrieved August 15, 2016
- ^ "DC Entertainment Expands Editorial Leadership Team". DC. 2017-05-05. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
- ^ "Gerard Way Talks New DC Comics Imprint". Rolling Stone. 8 April 2016.