Hey, all. It’s Friday and time for FAF, but I’m delaying my weekly fan art feature till tomorrow.
Why? Because it’s time to reveal the cover for the Uglies manga, also known as Uglies: Shay’s Story!
The image is by Steven Cunmmings, the interior artist. It’s a picture of Shay herself, presumably just emerging from being made pretty. She has that pretty vacant look in her eyes. Of course, the book starts way before that, several months before the novels before the novels, in fact!
Click here for an interview with me and Devin Grayson, my co-writer on the manga, with Girls Read Comics Too. You’ll also get some images from the books.
Click here for my own FAQ, answering your questions about the books.
And here for the original announcement about the series back at San Diego Comic Con. More art to look at!
And finally, here’s the back cover of Shay’s Story, with all the promo copy.
See you tomorrow for Fan Art Friday (um, on Saturday).
Bonus Info
Forgot to say: The first book in the Uglies manga series comes out Feb 29, 2012, in just under 100 days! There will be three books in all.
November 12th, 2011 05:31
i’m soooo excited for the manga!
is there an exact date of when this is coming out yet?
November 12th, 2011 05:39
I wish it was a real novel instead of a manga.
November 12th, 2011 05:48
YESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so excited!
OMG!! I am a huge Shay fan!! Is it wrong to say I like her more than Tally?
November 12th, 2011 05:54
Pretty:)
November 12th, 2011 07:30
Amy-la, not at all! I feel the same! ;-P
November 12th, 2011 08:36
I’ve been so excited about this since you visited KC!
November 12th, 2011 08:45
YAY!!! So glad I’m not alone Devin-la.
November 12th, 2011 09:39
Wow!
November 12th, 2011 10:31
@Devin-la and Amy-la:
I liked Shay best, too!
November 12th, 2011 11:20
Well, I’m certainly excited Mr. Westerfeld.
November 12th, 2011 20:15
is that ugly shay or pretty shay?
November 12th, 2011 21:11
I love the cover! How beautiful she is!
November 12th, 2011 22:47
like. Like. LIKE…… love. Love LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3
Scott-la, you are amazing!
November 12th, 2011 23:13
OMG!! i love this series!!!!! best of all times
November 12th, 2011 23:38
when will it come out???
November 13th, 2011 01:49
Shay was always my favorite character. (Ugly Shay and cured Special Shay anyway. Brain-damged Shay annoyed me)
WHEN DOES IT COME OUT??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
This is worse than waiting for Golaith
November 13th, 2011 02:15
That is beyond fantastic!
November 13th, 2011 05:28
I have an important question- At one point you said that you wanted to tell the story of how David got his scar; Will it be in the manga? Because it seemed to me that him and Shay were pretty close, so maybe he said.
November 13th, 2011 07:02
We know the story starts from before Shay and Tally met, but how much of the story does the manga cover? Until Shay meets Tally? Until Shay turns Pretty? Until they’re Specials? Until Extras? And is it all in one book, or will this be another Trilogy?
November 13th, 2011 07:45
OMG 0MG YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! So pumped for this!!!
Shay was always my fave girl character, but Zane is my all time fave! Whenever i like a guy hiscode name is Zane.
November 13th, 2011 11:57
You didn’t post the FAF today :l <this is not a happy face.
November 13th, 2011 12:57
Just added the data you all seek: It comes out Feb 28, and there will be three books in all.
November 13th, 2011 16:42
So, Scott… It’s SUNDAY… What happened….?
November 13th, 2011 21:25
@Hannah-la: Good question
November 14th, 2011 02:52
so hey Scottsters, skipping all the eclamation points and things, ill just stick to one question- MY BIRTHDAY IS FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE RELEASE, ARC PLEASE?! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAASSEE
November 14th, 2011 04:10
Yay! I don’t really like manga but still yay! And 3 means 3 only with 1 more as a surprise companion, right?
November 14th, 2011 04:21
if that’s pretty shay-la, then it would be an amazing last picture of her seeing her pretty face :O
November 14th, 2011 04:22
and i always knew her eyes were green, not copper
November 14th, 2011 06:49
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is sooooo happy-making!!!!!
November 14th, 2011 07:56
Yay! Preeety… haven’t read Uglies, but I shall attempt, (key word being attempt) to before the manga thing. (By the way, Scott, it be Sunday. Fan Art Monday, anyone?)
November 14th, 2011 09:06
I love the cover! And February? That’s earlier than I thought! Hoorah!
November 15th, 2011 01:39
@Clanker Rose: Fan art Tuesday, more like. At this rate it won’t be fan art friday till Christmas.
November 15th, 2011 02:28
Does anybody know when Fan art friday will happen?
November 15th, 2011 02:38
@Jacquie-la: Fan Art Christmas 2014.
November 15th, 2011 04:32
Heehee we’re all so impatient. Was he supposed to leave for Australia this weekend? That (unless he forgot) is probably the reason he forget Fan Art… Saturday? Sunday? Monday? Eh, I dunno.
November 15th, 2011 06:39
It’ll have to be FAT at this rate, and that sounds nowhere near as cool. :/
November 15th, 2011 08:08
February 28th!!! I’m very excited… Also Scott-la, it happens to be monday…. What happened to tomorrow?!
November 15th, 2011 15:31
So…. it’s Tuesday. How about that FAF?
November 15th, 2011 19:08
@Awesomesauce: That just made me burst out laughing here in class… Everyone is staring at me now.
November 15th, 2011 19:49
day after my birthday:)
November 16th, 2011 00:56
Wow love the cover and it plays tribute the original Uglies US cover too!
November 16th, 2011 01:22
I guess Ckott offcially missed Fan Art Friday now, since it’s actaully closer to the next Fan Art Friday than the one we’re waiting for
November 16th, 2011 04:03
I know right? I was waiting all day Saturday for it too! >:(
November 16th, 2011 04:20
I guess scott-la will just have to post 2X the art…
November 16th, 2011 06:46
I wonder where FAF is? It’s Tuesday, three days behind schedule…?
November 16th, 2011 08:10
OMG I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS thank you Scott!
I have read the series twice just finished extras for the second time!!!
November 16th, 2011 08:13
Is it just me or does this cover look like the Uglies one?
November 16th, 2011 08:14
Fan art tuesday is soon becoming fan art wednesday…..or will it happen at all?
November 16th, 2011 08:18
What is fan art?
November 16th, 2011 16:31
@Hannah-la: lol thanks
@Sophie-la: It’s art made about a certain type of media by fans of that media.
November 16th, 2011 17:19
Ok thank you awesomesauce
November 17th, 2011 03:13
FanArtWednesday? or FanArtThursday, maybe? please?
November 17th, 2011 03:13
Hopefully he posts the fan art in the next month or so…
November 17th, 2011 05:04
Scott-la… still waiting here… do you think maybe there will be a FAThursday??
November 17th, 2011 05:49
I thought the cover was ugly as the term implies “uglies”. haha. The color selection is good. And the whole concept was perfect.
November 17th, 2011 08:19
What I y’alls favorite book in the series mine is Specials by far. <3
November 17th, 2011 08:27
Special Shay is the best……I think.
November 17th, 2011 17:19
I really only like Shay without the brain damage, because when the city gives her the lesions, she becomes too much of what they want her to be.
November 17th, 2011 18:51
I totally agree
November 18th, 2011 01:59
In the middle of reading Behemoth… can’t wait to finish it and read Goliath! And I’m sure Scott has a good reason for missing FAF last week. Let’s all be patient and wait for the next FAF!
November 18th, 2011 06:03
Anybody know what Shay’s last name is?
November 18th, 2011 11:47
I love the uglies series! You should write extras from Tally’s point of view (Tally is by far, the best character in the book..) because its just more interesting to read about how she feels with the freaks than about how a vulnerable, only-cares-about-being-famous-girl.. And you should write more about Tally!!(throughout the first half i kept thinking: when is Tally going to jump in?! Lol) Anyways, i love mangas.
November 18th, 2011 18:11
You are so right Linda-wa.In extras I’m like
omg when is Tally gonna come in?!
TEAM TALLY
November 18th, 2011 21:19
I will ask again….. Does anybody know Shay’s last name?
November 18th, 2011 21:27
what i wanna know is what is what is wrong with tally?! i mean she falls in love with two people that shay was a friend of and shays boyfriend and promptly left one for the other. loving two people isnt right but loving two people who are near and dear to shay. please explain cause if i dont find out soon i with lose my mind and my sanity
November 19th, 2011 02:12
Anybody?!
November 19th, 2011 02:38
Hey Cate-la have you read the whole series?
November 19th, 2011 07:22
Hey Scott, this is kind of random, but are you a Harry Potter or a Twilight fan? (Say Twilight then I will personally kill you with a mixture of walkers and flechette bats)
November 19th, 2011 08:18
Twilight sucks!(exept for Taylor aka Jacob the wolf)
November 19th, 2011 19:02
@sophie-la
(i like aya and all but she just not bright, and i hate her mechevious plots against tally -_-) also Shay doesnt have a last name because last names isnt a thing in Tally’s city. So neither does david (second best character), zane, peris, fausto, tach, croy, ho and all those other guys.
Right?! It all sucked until Tally came in
November 19th, 2011 19:33
@Linda-wa
Thank you! I totally agree about Aya (Scott-la she was still awesome) she was always against Tally,
This was actually in the book this is what Aya said:
“I think,I don’t care what Tally Youngblood says”
(harsh)
November 19th, 2011 21:59
I have a question for Scott-la
Why make Aya and her friends Japanese?
November 20th, 2011 07:51
Omw! I’m so excited!! I love shay!
November 20th, 2011 07:52
@sophi-la
of course it so that scott-la could use all the cool endings on their names… also i guess it might sort of make sense considering that japan is just a little bit ahead in technology!
November 20th, 2011 08:39
What is icy????
November 20th, 2011 09:42
Great if you if you have a soft spot for happy endings! instant favorite!
November 20th, 2011 09:46
Thanks for manga. I think this A good One. With a hot line of a story n onteresting text
November 20th, 2011 22:02
@ Zackattack
Good point about the names! I think it could also be because they would have another language to use so Tally can’t understand!
November 21st, 2011 03:21
I just started Leviathan! On a scale of 1 to 10 how good is it?
(1being terrible 10 being amazing. Feel free to go off the scale!)
November 22nd, 2011 06:40
@Sophie-la: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 you get the idea!
But why do you put the -la / -wa on the end of names? Please do give anything away(I am only on Pretties)!
November 22nd, 2011 09:52
@Mojo
It has nothing to do with the books, scott-la just wanted to create a futuristic setting, where suffixes is added to the end, like japanese. Which is a brilliant idea. But basically if you have an L in your name, its -wa. If there is no L’s its -la. Its just awkward to say Tally-la?
November 23rd, 2011 02:43
@ mojo
Thanks I am loving it do far!
November 24th, 2011 07:32
Why isn’t anybody commenting?!
November 24th, 2011 22:57
@ Linda-wa
Thanks! Mine wouldn’t really work because it is Mallory and it would be really long to say Mallory-wa! Oh well! Thanks anyway!
@Sophie-la
because there is nothing to comment about!
November 26th, 2011 08:42
SO EXCITED!!!
I’m not really into Manga, to tell you the truth, but I’m sure it’s going to be awesome cause Shay rocks our socks.
95 days, 13 hours, 47 minutes, and 9 seconds!!!!!
November 26th, 2011 09:06
@ Libby-wa
How long did it take to find that out?!
And I’m not really into the manga either but Shay is beast so it will be great no matter what. Am I right or am I right?!
November 27th, 2011 04:24
Actually it only took me a couple seconds because I used this app on igoogle lol
Yeah totally!!
November 28th, 2011 04:17
@ Libby-wa
Lol that’s awesome!!
November 30th, 2011 03:56
I am getting more exited as it comes closer!
November 30th, 2011 07:56
@ Linda-wa
Have you read Bogus to Bubbly?
December 2nd, 2011 03:03
FAF tomorrow?
December 6th, 2011 06:57
I just posted this website on my email buzz!!!
December 7th, 2011 02:25
I’m glad you liked my sign Scott-la
December 7th, 2011 05:47
Somebody finally commented besides me!!
December 13th, 2011 06:39
Is anybody there? Is anybody else gonna comment?!
December 15th, 2011 04:23
I’m just curious…does anybody else desperately want to live in Tally’s world?! I know I do!!
December 18th, 2011 04:33
Hi guys I’m new to the series I am on the first one I LOVE IT so far
December 18th, 2011 04:34
Hey guys
December 18th, 2011 04:37
@ Hope-la
What page are u on?
December 18th, 2011 04:38
Yeah comment 100!
December 18th, 2011 06:27
@sophie-la Idk I’m don’t have my book
December 20th, 2011 02:16
Only 2 months, 9 days, 8 hours, 13 min, and 45 sec. Left!!!!
December 22nd, 2011 09:01
Only 2 months, 7 days, 1 hour, 28 minutes, 50 seconds left!!
December 22nd, 2011 09:02
@ Scott-la
Still waiting…
Still waiting…
This is hard!¡!¡!¡
December 24th, 2011 02:33
Who else thinks that the song paradise by Coldplay should be in the uglies movie? I know that I want it to be!!!
December 24th, 2011 02:34
I think it should be when Tally is packing up to go get the operation.
December 26th, 2011 05:38
I have never read Uglies, and I thought I never would, but I will now, so I can get excited over this manga!
Which looks really cool, by the way.
December 26th, 2011 19:47
I tried reading it in 4th grade,I thought it was so boring,didn’t bother in 5th grade,sixth grade tried again: now look at me!!! I’m addicted!!!! I have read uglies pretties and extras twice. I have read specials four times I love it!!!(if yall haven’t noticed I’m addicted…wow! I have posted the most comments on this one!!) specials is by far my favorite!!
December 30th, 2011 22:38
Still waiting
January 1st, 2012 20:20
It’s weird on these comments when I first started commenting I had no clue what fan art was (I asked) and now Scott-la has posted my fan art!!!!!!!!!!!
January 10th, 2012 08:00
I feel like I belong here with my fellow uglies series lovers I feel at home
January 26th, 2012 05:21
I La-La-LOVE uglies!
I read them last year, and just this year my friends are starting to read it.
I think it is SO happy-making that there is finally a graphic novel!
But its so angry-making that I have to wait until Feb 29.
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