{"product_id":"9781632157096","title":"Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003eSet in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003eAbout the\u003cbr\u003eCreators:\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003eNew York Times bestselling and award-winning writer Marjorie Liu is best known for her fiction and comic books.\u003cbr\u003eShe teaches comic book writing at MIT, and leads a class on Popular Fiction at the Voices of Our Nation (VONA) workshop. Ms. Liu's extensive work includes the bestselling \"Astonishing X-Men\" for Marvel Comics, which featured the gay wedding of X-Man Northstar and was subsequently nominated for a GLAAD Media\u003cbr\u003eAward for outstanding media images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Prior to writing full-time, Liu was a lawyer. She currently resides in Boston.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003eSana Takeda is an illustrator and comic book artist who was born in Niigata, and now resides in Tokyo, Japan. At age 20 she started out as a 3D CGI designer for SEGA, a Japanese video game company, and became a freelance artist when she was 25. She is still an artist,\u003cbr\u003eand has worked on titles such as \"X-23\" and \"Ms. Marvel\" for Marvel Comics, and is an illustrator for trading card games in Japan.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Image Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042418737392,"sku":"9781632157096","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781632157096_p0.jpg?v=1763673741","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781632157096","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}