Uglies Manga Cover

Posted on by scott

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.

114 thoughts on “Uglies Manga Cover”

  3. YESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so excited!
    OMG!! I am a huge Shay fan!! Is it wrong to say I like her more than Tally?

  16. 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

  18. 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.

  19. 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?

  20. 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. 😛

  25. 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

  26. Yay! I don’t really like manga but still yay! And 3 means 3 only with 1 more as a surprise companion, right?

  30. 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?)

  35. 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.

  37. February 28th!!! I’m very excited… Also Scott-la, it happens to be monday…. What happened to tomorrow?!

  39. @Awesomesauce: That just made me burst out laughing here in class… Everyone is staring at me now. 😉

  42. 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

  46. OMG I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS thank you Scott!
    I have read the series twice just finished extras for the second time!!!

  50. @Hannah-la: lol thanks
    @Sophie-la: It’s art made about a certain type of media by fans of that media.

  58. 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.

  60. 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!

  62. 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.

  65. 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

  68. 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)

  70. @sophie-la
    Right?! It all sucked until Tally came in 😀 (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.

  71. @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)

  74. @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!

  78. @ 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!
    😉

  79. 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!)

  80. @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)!

  81. @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?

  84. @ 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!

  85. 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!!!!!

  86. @ 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?! 🙂

  105. Who else thinks that the song paradise by Coldplay should be in the uglies movie? I know that I want it to be!!!

  107. 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.

  108. 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!! 😛

  110. 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!!!!!!!!!!!

  112. 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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