Anyway, Minx folded before Friends with Boys became anything more than a pitch, but it meant I had all this artwork and the beginning of a story lying around. The actual Friends with Boys ended up being quite different, but the main set up of home schooled girl with three brothers and a ghost was all part of that original Minx pitch. I was approached by Shelly Bond, who oversaw the imprint, and we worked together on a pitch which became the proto- Friends with Boys. “It was an imprint they created to publish comics for girls, and it folded after about a year.
“ Friends with Boys was originally a pitch for DC Comics’ Minx imprint,” explains Hicks.
Though eventually published through First Second, Friends with Boys had a false start with another publisher. To top it all off, there’s a centuries-old ghost, the widow of a captain who was lost at sea, who refuses to leave Maggie alone. This would be harsh enough, needing to find friends and learn how to socialize-though she starts to find a place with Alistair and Lucy, another pair of outcasts-but Maggie’s also dealing with a mother who recently decided to up and leave the family. In this story, Maggie, who has been home schooled her entire life, joins her three older brothers in public high school. In 2012 Hicks published the young-adult graphic novel Friends with Boys, which made the Young Adult Library Association’s list of Great Graphic Novels in 2013.
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