The Flip Side: A Graphic Novel

After losing his best friend to cancer, grieving Theo navigates a haunting alternate reality that embodies his depression, where he faces a shapeshifting monster and teams up with a mysterious girl to survive in a world where everyone has vanished.

About the author

Jason Walz worked for many years as a special education teacher, and is the creator of several previous graphic novels, including the Last Pick trilogy and the Eisner Award-nominated Homesick.

Summary

This breathtaking, page-turning graphic novel is a supernatural survival story in which a grieving teen finds himself in a haunting alternate reality—the frightening embodiment of his depression. For fans of Stranger Things and Nimona.

Theo’s best friend has died, and he can’t pull himself out of his sadness—a sadness that those around him don’t seem to respect or even notice. And then something even more disconcerting happens: His town literally flips upside down and everyone disappears, except for a threatening, shape-shifting monster and a snarky teenage girl who knows her way around this flipped world. Is Theo doomed to spend the rest of his life in this scary state?

Tremendously unique and suspenseful, The Flip Side tackles grief and depression in a fascinating and affecting way.

Product details

• Authors: Jason Walz
• Publisher: Random House N.Y.
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.2025
• EAN: 9780593618011
• ISBN: 978-0-593-61801-1
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 211 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Illustrations: FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Fantasy, Graphic Novels, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Depression, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / Paranormal, Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's / Teenage), Comic strip fiction / graphic novels (Children's / Teenage), Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Fantasy, esoteric, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions