| I Kill Giants | |
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Cover of the first issue |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Image Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publication date | July 2008 – January 2009 |
| Number of issues | 7 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Joe Kelly |
| Artist(s) | J. M. Ken Niimura |
| Creator(s) | Joe Kelly J. M. Ken Niimura |
| Collected editions | |
| Hardcover | ISBN 1607061732 |
I Kill Giants is an American comic book limited series published by Image Comics beginning in 2008. The comic was created by writer Joe Kelly and artist J. M. Ken Niimura and featured a girl struggling with an impending family disaster by escaping into a fantasy life of magic and monsters.
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As stated by Joe Kelly in a Newsarama interview:
| “ | It's a story about a girl who’s a bit of an outsider – she's funny, but totally in our geekland: she's obsessed with Dungeons & Dragons, she doesn't have a lot of friends, she’s a bit of a social misfit. She's taken her fantasy life a little far, and really only talks about giants to people. She's convinced that giants are real and giants are coming, and it's her responsibility to stop them when they show up. This weird little fantasy life that she's going has started seeping into her real life, and as we see things from her point of view, we see that she sees pixies and she sees signs in the clouds and other things that might be telling her that bad things might be coming.[1] | ” |
The series has been collected into an individual volume:
I Kill Giants won the "Best Indy Book of 2008" by IGN,[2] as well as making into the 10 best comics of 2009 list as complied by New York magazine's Dan Kois,[3] as well as 2010 top ten great graphic novels for teens by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).[4]