Pittsburgh Artist Completes Long-Delayed Cult-Favorite Graphic Novel

A few years later arrived another signature work that brought girls to the front. “The P.L.A.I.N. Janes” is Rugg’s graphic-novel series with Los Angeles-based writer Cecil Castellucci, about four high school friends in a secret guerilla-art club. Its first and second installments, in 2007 and 2008, were critical hits, but hopes for more faded when DC Comics abruptly folded Minx, its pioneering imprint aimed at adolescent girls.

Eleven years on, the cult favorite returns. Castellucci and Rugg’s forthcoming hardback “The P.L.A.I.N. Janes” (Little, Brown) collects volumes one and two and adds a new, third story that takes its protagonists through high school graduation.

Pittsburgh Artist Completes Long-Delayed Cult-Favorite Graphic Novel WESA.FM 12/23/2019