Career
He lives in New New York Lyga majored in English at Yale receiving his Bachelor in 1993. He then spent ten years working at Diamond Comic Distributors after having spent his teenage years immersed in comic books
During this period, Lyga had seen his short stories published.
His book Archvillain was released in October 2013. and I Hunt Killers was released in March 2012. The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl is Lyga"s first novel and was published in 2006.
The story arose from Lyga"s youthful exploration of plotting and characterization he found in comic books Lyga acknowledges that Fanboy and Goth Girl is autobiographical in that "a lot of what Fanboy describes is I went through.. the book has autobiographical elements, but it also has a lot of wish fulfillment." Lyga says that "the entire book just popped into my head all at once." Touching upon the book"s violent subject matter, Lyga says,"I didn"t want to shy away from the violent fantasies.
We"re living in the post-Columbine world." The threat of violence, though, is just a threat and "the lack of bloodshed was a pleasant surprise" as one book reviewer, Spencer Korson, said.
Fanboy and Goth Girl has earned starred reviews and made the School Library Journal"s 2006 Best Books list. Kirkus reviews calls it "authentic and well-written". All reviews, though, mention that the "story unfolds slowly." The story is darkly comic.
Reviewer Gillian Engberg described Fanboy and Goth Girl as a "realistic, contemporary story of bullying and a teen"s private escape." Fanboy is obsessed with comics – graphic novels as he corrects Goth Girl – and a sub-plot trip to a "comic-book convention.. feels authentic."
Publishers Weekly reported that Jeremiah South. Chechik, director of Benny and Joon, is negotiating for film rights.
Boy Toy is Lyga"s second young adult novel. Hero-Type is Lyga"s third YA novel, also set in Brookdale.
However, when patriotic Brookdale witnesses him removing "Support the Troops" magnets from his car, he"s set in a compromising position. The town turns against him, and he engages in a mental and verbal fight with a classmate over the rights and wrongs and simple interpretations and beliefs of what it means to be patriotic.
Goth Girl Rising is the direct sequel to The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl.
Secretariat six months after the events of the first novel Goth Girl Rising follows Kyra as she returns home from Maryland Mental Health Unit. Lyga"s first graphic novel Mangaman, a meta-fictional tale of East meet West, as a manga boy breaks through a hole in reality and meets a real girl, was illustrated by artist Colleen Doran. lieutenant was published in 2011, and received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews.