“I’ll never forget seeing my first dragon,” reads the opening line
of a new comics story written by Stephen Bissette and drawn by me for
Awesome ‘Possum Volume 4! The book is
live on Kickstarter now, so now you have the opportunity to back the book's publication and preorder your copy.
Awesome ‘Possum
is an anthology series of nonfiction comics about natural science,
edited by Angela Boyle. It brings together leading emerging and
established cartoonists to tell the stories of earth’s remarkable plants
and animals. The tales range from the very scientific to the very
personal; they are friendly for all ages and especially good for ages
9-12. Bissette was my teacher at The Center for Cartoon Studies, and is
best known for his collaborations with Alan Moore on the DC comic book
series
Saga of the Swamp-Thing. As dinosaur-loving children who
never fully grew up, Bissette and I put our hearts and souls into
writing about and illustrating the natural history and human history of
one of the few giant reptiles that still inhabits the earth.
AP4 also includes stories by other creators about lemurs, llamas, sphinx moths,
Rafflesia, and much more.
We’re live on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/861608378/awesome-possum-vol-4
My work also appears in
AP2 (collaboration with Bissette about fishers) and
AP3 (solo work about frogs and mosses). As in the previous volumes, the writers and artists of
AP4 will
be amazingly diverse in how they approach presenting the biodiversity
of our planet!
Cheers and thank you~
