Palefire

Can Alison play with fire without getting burned? From two comics superstars comes an explosive, high school noir romance for everyone with a mind of their own. 

Everyone hates Darren, the firebug, the bad boy trouble follows everywhere. Alison finds a warmth to Darren, a spark everyone's missing. Alison knows what she's doing, but after tonight's fireworks, she'll find out who knows best. 

Palefire, the first collaboration between writer MK Reed and artist Farel Dalrymple, takes us back to high school for a hot date to the party of the year. When you're not a girl, and not yet a woman, the last thing you want is advice. The road to hell may be paved with good intentions, but everyone deserves a second chance—even if it goes up in flames..

Farel Dalrymple is the author of the New York Times Bestseller, the Wrenchies (First Second). He has also collaborated with author Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn, the Fortress of Solitude) on Omega the Unknown (Marvel Comics). His comic, Pop Gun War, was a Xeric Grant recipient and won a gold medal from The Society of Illustrators. He is a co-founder of the comic anthology, Meathaus. He is currently residing in Oregon where he is working on a sequel to Pop Gun War, drawing his Eisner Award nominated webcomic, IT WILL ALL HURT, for Studygroup Comics, and illustrating the Earfarmer, a science fiction love story for Dark Horse Presents with writer Chris Stevens.

MK Reed is the author of the graphic novels Americus and the Cute Girl Network (First Second). She also writes and draws the web comic About A Bull. Her work can be found in anthologies like Papercutter, the Big Feminist But, and the Swedish magazine, Galago. Americus was the winner of NAIBA’s 2012 Carla Cohen Free Speech Award, and was a 2011 American Booksellers for Children’s New Voices title. The first chapter was nominated for an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Story in 2008 after its inclusion in Papercutter 7. MK lives in Seattle with a very tall nurse.