New crops of high-school pariahs continue to emerge, creating sci-fi worlds in notebook margins and not fearing to stand tall among the great modern-day creative force.ĭC Pierson’s debut novel, “The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To,” reveals the budding comic artist as he truly is, without the romance of history, as he sits in the back of the classroom, in 2010, thinking about “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had ToĪs writers such as Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem have embraced their comic-inspired youth, revealing an intimate love for the medium and an appreciation of its cultural resonance, they have in turn inspired the next generation of young comic-obsessed novelists.
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