Just Another Summer

When scandal sidelines two LA teen celebrities, a punishment summer on a Montana farm forces them to trade red carpets for rubber boots—and to choose between the futures they were raised for and the loves they never saw coming. Just Another Summer is a sharp, big-hearted YA about two teen TV stars exiled to a Montana dairy farm after a tabloid blow-up—and the summer that remakes them. Between 4 a.m. milkings, fence mending, and a no-nonsense great-uncle, Hayley and Becky discover who they are without cameras: one sister falls for the girl who runs the town diner, the other for a trans farmhand whose quiet resilience shatters her Hollywood preconceptions. It's funny, queer, tender, and unflinchingly real—about work that matters, love that surprises you, and the cost of chasing a dream when it might mean leaving a new life behind.

Tilly & Susan Bridges are a writing team, currently writing the “Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming” comic for IDW. They wrote for season two of the “Monster High” animated series (for which their "Monster Fest" special won an inaugural Velma Award for LGBTQIA+ representation in children's media), consulted on season two of “Star Trek Prodigy,” and are writing other as yet unannounced graphic novels. They also wrote and directed a trans sci-fi short film, “Long Away,” which is now playing in film festivals around the world. Tilly's book “Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix” is available now, and you can find Tilly's weekly essays on trans life at TillysTransTuesdays.com. Giulia Rinaldo has nurtured a deep love for art, comics, design and cinema throughout her life. In 2017, after visual storytelling training with Mizue Kawaguchi at Tokyo Designer Gakuin and an inspiring encounter with Carlo Ambrosini and Enea Riboldi, she decided to pursue her creative interests professionally. She studied at Milan's Scuola del Fumetto, where she received several national recognitions, including first prize at the Premio Nuvolosa in Biella in 2021. Working as a comics artist, illustrator and designer, Giulia has had the opportunity to collaborate with notable clients including Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Ferrero. She continued her studies at the Politecnico di Milano, graduating cum laude in Communication Design, and later at L'École de design Nantes Atlantique. She is currently pursuing her Master's degree in International Design Business Management at Aalto University in Finland. In 2024, Giulia had the privilege of publishing "Where is Groot?" with Arancia Studio for Dynamite Entertainment, a children's book featuring Marvel's character Groot. She has founded BAlloon - Busto Arsizio Comic Festival, where she serves as artistic director. Valentina Briški was born in 1988. in Zagreb, Croatia, where she finished School for Applied Arts and Design. She illustrates books and draws and colors comics. Her coloring work includes Mars Attacks Red Sonja (Dynamite), Astronaut Down (Aftershock), Kill More (IDW) and is also featured in Hello Darkness #10 (Boom). She lives and works in Zagreb.