Taproot: A Story about a Gardener and a Ghost

by Keezy Young

Overview

Blue is having a hard time moving on. He’s in love with his best friend. He’s also dead. Luckily, Hamal can see ghosts, leaving Blue free to haunt him to his heart’s content. But something eerie is happening in town, leaving the local afterlife unsettled, and when Blue realizes Hamal’s strange ability may be putting him in danger, Blue has to find a way to protect him, even if it means . . . leaving him.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781549301957
Publisher:	Oni Press
Publication date:	09/26/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	561,825
File size:	40 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	13 - 16 Years

About the Author

Keezy Young is a queer comic artist and illustrator from the Pacific Northwest, currently in Seattle, WA. Although their art is self-taught, they credit Digimon, Hiromu Arakawa, Trina Schart Hyman, Arthur Rackham, and Studio Ghibli as important influences. Their work is character-focused, and they use action, romance, and mystery to explore LGBTQIA characters and themes, since those are the stories they always looked for growing up, but could rarely find.  Keezy's first graphic novel, Taproot--a story about a ghost and a gardener--debuted in September 2017 with Lion Forge (now Lion Forge-Oni Press) and has won several awards, including best graphic novel by the Rainbow Book List - GLBTQ Books for Children and Teens 2017, Best of Best Shots 2017 by Newsarama, The Texas Library Association's Maverick Reading List 2018, Best LGBT Graphic Novels of 2017 by The Advocate, and the Florida Authors & Publishers Association award for best cover design (small format). Never Heroes is an ongoing, serialized dark adventure webcomic published by Hiveworks, and can be read in full online. You can also find their work in anthologies such as The Beyond Anthology Volume 2, Bring Down the Sky, and The Dream Cluster, and Circadia, a comic written by Jennifer Dugan. Keezy has also worked on covers for a number of IDW, BOOM!, and Lion Forge series, including Jem (Hasbro), Voltron (Dreamworks), and Over the Garden Wall (Cartoon Network).