"Academy Cadets" is a narrative told through the medium of a comic strip, authored by Martin Fisher, brought to life visually by Eva Widermann, and overseen editorially by Gunther Nickel. This tale saw its publication within the eighteenth edition of the Star Wars Rebels Magazine series, courtesy of Egmont UK Ltd, hitting shelves on May 18 of the year 2016.
Fisher indicates that the events of the story unfold in the temporal gap separating the Star Wars Rebels episodes titled "Legends of the Lasat" and "The Call."