• Cover: A bright, uncomfortably yellow cover for dEMOn BOY, where the letters “EMO BOY” in the title are all capitalized for emphasis. The cover has a very ‘punk zine DIY’ feel to it, and features art of the titular Demon Boy. Victor, the Demon Boy, has red skin and is playing his guitar while getting splashed in the face from beer flowing from a green bottle someone has thrown at him.
  • Page 1: A 5-panel page from dEMOn BOY. All the panels are in grayscale but features spot red for emphasis. Panel 1: Three bandmates Victor, Parker, and Lexi are tiny figures as they walk towards an abandoned warehouse where their band will be playing. Victor says, “Let’s do our best, guys. Tonight could get us that record deal if the label rep shows up.” Lexi replies “I mean, that’s always the plan, but, c’mon, it’s a lock.” Panel 2: Victor slumps in the foreground, while Parker and Lexi are off to his side
  • Page 2 Panel 1: Victor’s eyes are closed, his expression soft as he continues singing, “But now your star’s gone cold…” Panel 2: Victor opens his eyes. He’s distracted by noise from the crowd. As Victor sings, “Fading colors once were bold,” someone off-panel yells, “CRY HARDER, DEMON BOY!” Panel 3: Over Victor’s shoulder, we see three demonic frat boys in the crowd. One of them cups his mouth to yell, “YOUR SONG SUCKS!” Another with giant horns hurls a beer bottle towards Victor. Panel 4: One of the demons
  • Page 3 Panel 1: Victor collapses to his knees, his guitar now hanging forgotten on his lamp. One of the demons yells, “Little Demon Boy crying?!” In a quavering voice, Victor says, “You shoulda…” Panel 2: The demons in the crowd howl with excitement, yelling, “We’ll fucking kill you, dude!” “No more sad songs after that! Panel 3: Demonic, bat-like wings rip through Victor’s clothes, tearing them, as he covers his face with his hands. Now Victor’s skin is colored in the spot red. He begins to say, “You shoul
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Kody Okamoto, Mark O Stack, Jodie Troutman

dEMOn BOY

dEMOn BOY

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There’s nowhere left to go except downhill after saving the world.

Victor Ruiz is looking to leave his embarrassing past as a demonic avenger in the rearview and reinvent himself as a serious musician. The problem is that folks are only coming to his shows to see and/or kill the Demon Boy.

An 11 page mini-comic with 11 pages of bonus backmatter! 

Content warnings: graphic violence, gore.

28 pages

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Kody Okamoto

Originally from Hawai'i, Kody is a Seattle-based genderqueer cartoonist. They like to focus on queer narratives in subcultures that have historically been hostile to such experiences, like in pro-wrestling and punk scenes. When not working on his long-form webcomic, Keeping Time, Kody can be found singing songs to his cats about how stinky they are.

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Mark O. Stack

Writer Mark O. Stack is a Chicano comics writer based in California. His work includes writing and publishing the critically acclaimed graphic novella The Scent of May Rain and co-creating Young Offenders! with Mike Becker.

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Jodie Troutman

Letterer and contributing creator Jodie Troutman is a comics creator based in Arizona. She's best known for literary goofs like Lit Brick and The Gospel of Carol. In addition to Young Offenders! and other Weekend Warrior Comics release, she has lettered for publishers such as Z2 Comics and Arledge Comics.

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