Anya Davidson Crafts a Climate Change Coming-Of-Age Drama in Night and Dana

Teenage Dana Drucker has a lot on her plate in Anya Davidson’s new graphic novel, Night and Dana. She’s struggling to balance her senior year, her fraying relationship with her best friend Lily, the repercussions of their diploma-threatening prank, the toxic algae threatening her coastal Florida hometown, and a burgeoning supernatural presence. When tasked with creating a horror film about climate change and putting her talents in gruesome special-effects makeup to more constructive use, Dana finds herself drifting away from Lily.In an interview with CBR, cartoonist Anya Davidson discussed her newest comic from Graphic Universe publishing, Night and Dana, playing with genre, writing for young adult audiences, art in journalism, and growing up during an era of climate change. CBR: In your career, you have done original comics as well as graphic journalism. Would you say that these two mediums influence each other? RELATED: INTERVIEW: Screenwriter Michael Schwartz Enters the World of Comics with Armored, a Mythology-Laden Tale of Ghouls and Ghosts

Teenage Dana Drucker has a lot on her plate in Anya Davidson’s new graphic novel, Night and Dana. She’s struggling to balance her senior year, her fraying relationship with her best friend Lily, the repercussions of their diploma-threatening prank, the toxic algae threatening her coastal Florida hometown, and a burgeoning supernatural presence. When tasked with creating a horror film about climate change and putting her talents in gruesome special-effects makeup to more constructive use, Dana finds herself drifting away from Lily.

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In an interview with CBR, cartoonist Anya Davidson discussed her newest comic from Graphic Universe publishing, Night and Dana, playing with genre, writing for young adult audiences, art in journalism, and growing up during an era of climate change.

CBR: In your career, you have done original comics as well as graphic journalism. Would you say that these two mediums influence each other?

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