In The Solvers, a crew of crime-fighting kid superheroes teach readers ages 8 and up foundational math skills, such as multiplication and division, as they battle their evil nemesis, Null Void. All math concepts are presented with fully illustrated step-by-step instructions and tons of superhero themed visual examples.
In the first book, The DivMulti Dilemma, the evil Null Void steals the DivMulti Ray (a laser gun that can multiply or divide anything it touches!). The Solvers must learn all about multiplication and division to stop the supervillain in her tracks! Throughout the action-packed narrative, clear, step-by-step instructions and illustrated, superhero-themed examples present essential multiplication and division concepts in an easy-to-understand way. |
In The Solvers, a crew of crime-fighting kid superheroes teach readers ages 8 and up foundational math skills, such as multiplication and division, as they battle their evil nemesis, Null Void. All math concepts are presented with fully illustrated step-by-step instructions and tons of superhero themed visual examples.
In the seconds book, The Shrinking Setback, the Solvers accidentally drink a shrinking potion! The pint-sized superheroes must learn all about fractions and decimals to mix an antidote and stop supervillain Null Void from taking over the city! Throughout the action-packed narrative, clear, step-by-step instructions and illustrated, superhero-themed examples introduce readers to fractions and decimals and then teach how to add, subtract, multiply and divide them, in a super easy-to-understand way. |
Science Comics: The Periodic Table of Elements is all about the elements that make up the world around us, and the Periodic Table, that helps us understand the trends and patterns between the elements. Like my previous Science Comics, this one is housed in a fictional story. Mel is young girl that is nervous about the test she has to take the following morning all about the elements. During the night, Mel is whisked away in her dreams to a fantasy land where she needs to stop the evil Elemancer in his fortress modeled off of the Periodic Table of Elements. It's part chemistry, part dungeon crawler!
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Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball is a book that is very near and dear to my heart. In this book, I use the medium of comics to explore pinball's past, present, and future. I try to make the argument about what pinball is (an interdisciplinary game of skill), what it isn't (a frivolous game of luck), and why it is such an an indispensable and unique entry in to the landscape of gaming. This book took me three years to make, and was one of the most difficult things I've ever drawn. I'm excited to share this deep dive into pinball with the world!
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I've been so excited seeing people connect with this book and reach out to chat with me about pinball! My enthusiasm for the game, history, and community has grown tenfold since I started working on the book. Something that makes me really happy when is people have reached out to me with notes and clarifications on some of the nitty gritty bits of pinball's history. If you want to view them, follow the link below:
Solar System: Our Place in Space is the second book in First Second's Science Comics series I've worked on, and this one is (obviously) about our solar system! Written by the incomparable Rosemary Mosco, this book features a young girl named Sara who is pulled out of the doldrums of her boredom by her friend Jill. Jill who teaches Sara all about our AMAZING solar system with the help of their pets, who they imagine are astronauts!
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In Volcanoes: Fire and Life, a young girl named Aurora works with her siblings and her teacher to learn how to scrounge for fuel in a not-so-distant, frozen future. Aurora learns that the Earth is not a dead, cold hunk of dirt, but is instead a moving thing full of fire and life. Aurora learns all about volcanoes, how they're formed, where they are formed, and what sort of material they erupt. I love using fiction as a vehicle to convey real and exciting science!
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Bad Mask is a multi-format story that tells of how society is changed by the battle between Bad Mask, an evil international criminal organization, and Metal Metro, the super-intelligent and super-powerful robot built to defeat Bad Mask. The story is told through primary documents taken right from the world, including magazine, newspapers, case files, handbooks and even trading cards! How does the conflict between Bad Mask and Metal Metro affect politics? Finance? Popular culture? And is Metal Metro what it seems to be? Is Bad Mask?
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In 2010, cartoonist Alec Longstreth and I got OBSESSED with pinball! Over the next 4 years we put out seven issues of a fanzine all about pinball called Drop Target Zine. The zine included interviews, comics, illustrations, and reviews all about pinball. In 2017, we compiled all the issues of Drop Target into the 530-page Drop Target Omnibus with 100+ pages of new content!
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Leo Geo and his Miraculous Journey Through the Center of the Earth was the first book I wrote that was ever published. It started as a formal comics-making experiment to see if I could draw a continual comic with multiple moments on every page, but with no panel borders. Leo Geo eventually morphed into a book about geology and the different layers of the earth, but it also catalyzed my interest in couching real science facts in a framework of fiction.
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In my second Leo Geo book, Leo Geo and the Cosmic Crisis, Leo and his bother, Matt Data, simultaneously leave their space stations to help the other. Both run into trouble, espouse a lot about Astronomy, and use science to save the day. This book has two "front covers" with each story reading normally and meeting in the middle, while some elements weave through both parts.
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OH GEEZ! Bobo Backslack lives in North Dakota and nothing seems to go right for him! All he wants to do is be good at his job laying out coupons, meeting new people, and making his mom happy, but it seems like all the forces in the world, including the supernatural, conspire against him. The BAD-ventures of Bobo Backslack was written to be slapsticky, silly, and a little gross. -NOT INTENDED FOR YOUNG READERS!!-
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