Blue Monday (comics)
| Blue Monday | |
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Cover of Blue Monday: The Kids Are Alright TPB
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher |
Oni Press (2000-2015) Image Comics (2015- ) |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Multiple one-shots and limited series |
| Genre | Slice of life story |
| Publication date | 2000 |
| No. of issues | 15 |
| Main character(s) | Bleu L. Finnegan Clover Connelly Alan Walsh Victor Gomez Erin O'Neill |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Chynna Clugston |
| Written by | Chynna Clugston |
| Artist(s) | Chynna Clugston |
| Collected editions | |
| The Kids Are Alright | ISBN |
Blue Monday is a comic book series created, written and illustrated by Chynna Clugston Flores. The series follows the adventures of Bleu L. Finnegan and her friends as they attend high school during the early 1990s, specifically between the years 1991-93.
Chynna Clugston Flores created Blue Monday during her own high school years in the early 90's, beginning with the characters Bleu and Clover. The series is named after the song by British post-punk band New Order. Between 1997 and 2000, individual short stories and one-pagers appeared in such publications as Dark Horse Presents, Action Girl Comics and Oni Double Feature.
In 2000, editor Jamie S. Rich picked the title up for Oni Press. The miniseries The Kids Are Alright was published in 2000, followed over the next five years by three more miniseries, all released in black and white and collected as digest-sized paperbacks. Blue Monday then went on a long hiatus, with an attempt to publish a fifth miniseries in 2009 resulting in only a single issue.
In 2015, Image Comics acquired publication rights to the series and announced plans to release new editions of the paperbacks. The new books are in standard trade paperback size, with colors added by Eisner Award-winning colorist Jordie Bellaire. The Image Comics edition of The Kids Are Alright appeared in July 2016, Absolute Beginners in December 2016, and Inbetween Days in July 2017. Painted Moon will be published in the same format in September 2017, to be followed by volume five, Thieves Like Us, and an omnibus volume entitled Germfree Adolescents which will include all the published Blue Monday comics up to that point.
Chynna Clugston Flores has stated that she has plans to continue the Blue Monday stories past the high school years and into the young adulthoods of the characters.
The story takes place in the early 1990's, mainly in the fictitious northern California town of Deadwood, which is based on the towns of Oakhurst and Coarsegold where the author spent her high school years. The main characters all attend Jefferson High School, based on Yosemite High School in Oakhurst. Nearby is the larger city of Fresburger (Fresno).
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