Sanity & Tallulah Brings Us Best Friends And Mad Science In Space

I’ve been a fan of dear Sanity and Tallulah, the two girl space detectives and best friends since their earlier showings as standouts on Comixology Firsts. Back in 2014, the girls were created by Molly Brooks when a friend of hers Andrea Tsurumi, whom she credits on the thank you page in the book, for agreed to do a minicomic zine with Brooks and then suggesting that the theme should be ‘science fiction teen girl detectives’. Now Sanity and Tallulah’s adventures have expanded to a graphic novel series for the middle school audience picked up by Disney-Hyperion for a three-book deal and this one is book one! So the book’s synopsis reads: “It can get pretty dull living on a small, out-of-the-way station like Wilnick SS. Best friends Sanity Jones and Tallulah Vega do their best to relieve the monotony of everyday space life by finding adventures, solving mysteries, and taking turns getting each other into and out of trouble. But when Sanity’s latest science project—an extremely-illegal-but-impossibly-cute three-headed kitten— escapes from the lab and starts causing general havoc, the girls will have to turn the station upside down to find her—before the damage becomes irreversible!”

For those new to Brooks’s art: the unique color scheme has some influence from her background in letterpress printing, the line work is done by hand as that’s real-life ink that she scans back into color. Everything else is done digitally: the coloring, the lettering, the flattening. It’s a neat mix…