The Waiting Place
| The Waiting Place | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Slave Labor Graphics |
| Publication date | 1997 – 2002 |
| No. of issues | 18 |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Sean Kelley McKeever |
| Written by | Sean Kelley McKeever |
| Artist(s) | Brendon & Brian Fraim (vol. 1) Mike Norton (vol. 2) |
| Collected editions | |
| Book One | ISBN 0-943151-36-8 |
The Waiting Place is a comic book series created by Sean Kelley McKeever in 1997. Recommended by the author for young adults aged 14+, the series is a teen drama which centers on the lives of a group of teenagers (and one twenty-something) living in the remote American town of Northern Plains. The theme of the series is that characters who live in such towns exist in a 'holding pattern', spending their time waiting for something to happen. McKeever has described the themes of some of his comics, including The Waiting Place, as being "Alienation; coming of age; a burning desire to get on with life." The Waiting Place established McKeever as a writer of high-school stories, and paved the way for his later work for Marvel Comics on titles like Sentinel and Mary Jane.
Northern Plains, where The Waiting Place is set, is based on Eagle River, Wisconsin, where Sean attended High School.