Teenage Riot: YA Reality with a Comics Kick

Margaret Stohl (Black Widow: Forever Red), Maggie Thrash (We Know It Was You) and Jessica Abel (Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars) talk about their new YA thrillers and how their travels between comics and prose challenge and inspire them. Moderated by Alex Segura, author of Down the Darkest Street.
Two hundred years from now, on the newly inhabited Mars, Trish “Trash” Nupindju dreams of only one thing: becoming a hoverderby star, in Jessica Abel’s graphic novel, Trish Trash #1: Rollergirl of Mars. Margaret Stohl’s Graphic YA novel, Black Widow Red Vengeance (A Black Widow Novel), takes readers inside the minds of Marvel’s most cunning and dangerous spies—Black Widow and Red Widow—revealing more than ever before about the infamous assassin and her fledgling hero-in-training. In Maggie Thrash’s YA mystery novel, We Know It Was You, a beautiful cheerleader—dressed as the giant Winship Wildcat mascot—hurls herself off a bridge into Atlanta’s surging Chattahoochee River.