This fun graphic novel for all ages was written by Chris Bolton and illustrated by his brother Kyle. I got it because I attended a workshop led by Chris Bolton, who is about the nicest guy ever, and from what he said I figured I would learn a lot about formatting a graphic novel.
I already reviewed this book, but here's another recommendation:
So yesterday, the kids got in a big fight over who got to read Smash. Saiph had finished it, but then Rigel read it and loved it and had only like 10 pages left to go, and Saiph admitted that he hadn't read it from beginning to end, he'd started reading somewhere in the middle and like it but it didn't completely make sense to him. Rigel insisted that he had to read it from the beginning because it was SO GOOD and it would make more sense to him. So then Saiph started reading again but Rigel wanted to finish the last 10 pages and it turned into a physical fight over the book. Then this morning, Rigel came to me and said, "Can you write to Grandma and ask her if there's a sequel for Smash?" I said that I didn't think there was but I'd ask. And now you have a good sense of what kind of graphic novels they love!You can also read a little about Smash on Amazon, where I found the answer to Rigel's question, which is that the writer IS working on a sequel right now! But it probably won't be published for a few months from now. Here's the whole paragraph from Amazon:
Chris A. Bolton has written comics, short stories, stage plays, sketch comedy, and screenplays. He wrote and directed several short films and an acclaimed web series called "Wage Slaves." His first published book is the all-ages graphic novel SMASH: TRIAL BY FIRE (Candlewick Press, 2013), illustrated by his brother, Kyle. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he's hard at work writing SMASH Book 2.Better yet, you can go to the Smash Comic Web site to get the latest installments in the new book!
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