Schedule: | Irregular |
Limited: | y |
Scifi: | y |
Fantasy: | y |
Publisher: | Red 5 Comics (through ComiXology) |
Date: | October 2013 |
Issues: | 4 |
Editors: | Daniel Solem Olga Nunes |
Tpb: | Creature Academy |
Isbn: | 978-0-615-92033-7 |
Sort: | Creature Academy |
Creature Academy is an all-ages/science fiction/fantasy digital comic series created by Kevin Hanna, that ran for four issues and was published in a collected edition for the first time in 2013.[1]
In 2008, LeftJet announced that they had taken steps for a possible future film adaptation;[2] The film, The Creature Academy, is currently in preproduction.[3]
Creature Academy follows the story of Wes Mendes, a rebellious teen who has lived his life on the run with his mother. After his mother is kidnapped by ghost-like specters, Wes must hide in the under-city, a hidden city beneath Seattle where magic users and mythical creatures coexist. There, he joins a team of students and their mythical creatures at the Academy, a school for training magic users.[4]
The protagonist, Wes Mendes, is a young teen learning to navigate a world filled with adults and magic. The characters' names in the book are inspired by famous directors, such as Wes Anderson and Sam Mendes.[5]
The series has been collected into a hardcover volume Creature Academy in 2014 by Red 5 Comics.[6]
In 2015, controversy arose when Kabam's mobile game, also named 'Creature Academy', was accused of infringing on Kevin Hanna's intellectual property. This led to the game being removed from app stores.[7] [8]