Night and Dana

A creative coming-of-age story for the climate-change generationDana Drucker fights boredom in her Florida beach town by crafting special-effects makeup-the more gruesome, the better. But when a messy prank with Dana's best friend Lily gets the wrong kind of attention, the girls have two choices: find a new creative outlet or leave high school without graduating. To save their shot at diplomas, Dana and Lily join a community college film class. It gives Dana a chance to keep practicing her monster makeup, as she and Lily start work on a horror movie inspired by local ocean warming. And a search for filming locations puts Dana in the path of Daphne Ocean, an activist and self-proclaimed water witch the perfect kind of inspiring outsider. But when filming starts, Dana finds herself growing apart from Lily, who doesn t seem to need her closest friend much anymore. Soon, tempers are flaring, and Dana s pushing away old friends and her new mentor. But as everything starts going up in flames, Dana also begins to forge her voice. Night and Dana is a creative coming-of-age story for the climate-change era, a graphic novel about making art and growing up when it feels like the world is on fire.