Nick Pollotta, was an American author, he is best known for his humorous novels, including which science-fiction novel, with Phil Foglio, an American cartoonist and comic book artist best known for his humorous science fiction and fantasy art?
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Nick Pollotta Nick Pollotta (August 26, 1954, New Jersey – April 13, 2013, Chicago) was an American author. He is best known for his humorous novels, including the science-fiction novel, "Illegal Aliens" (with Phil Foglio) and the fantasy novels "Bureau 13" and "That Darn Squid God" (with James Clay). The majority of his work was published by Gold Eagle Books under house names "James Axler" and "Don Pendleton."
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Phil Foglio Philip Foglio (born May 1, 1956) is an American cartoonist and comic book artist best known for his humorous science fiction and fantasy art.
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Fantastic art Fantastic art is a broad and loosely defined art genre. It is not restricted to a specific school of artists, geographical location or historical period. It can be characterised by subject matter – which portrays non-realistic, mystical, mythical or folkloric subjects or events – and style, which is representational and naturalistic, rather than abstract - or in the case of magazine illustrations and similar, in the style of graphic novel art such as manga.
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The Moon and the Sun The Moon and the Sun is a novel by American writer Vonda N. McIntyre, published in 1997. The book combines two major genres: science fiction and historical romance (also known as alternate history). It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1997, beating out "A Game of Thrones" by George R. R. Martin. The novel was inspired by the short story (written in the form of a faux-encyclopedia article) "The Natural History and Extinction of the People of the Sea", also by McIntyre, which was illustrated by fellow author Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Andrew Harman Andrew Harman is a science fiction and fantasy fiction author from the United Kingdom. His novels bear titles that pun on other famous works. Each work reflects its playful title, having a plot matching the work to which it alludes, with a humorous twist.
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Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( , commonly ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For "Gravity's Rainbow", Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
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Massimo Fenati Massimo Fenati (born: Genoa, Italy, 1969), is an Italian comic book artist, illustrator and animator. He lives in London, UK, and is a dual citizen of Italy and the UK. He's mostly known as the creator of the "Gus & Waldo" book series and animations, about a pair of gay penguins in love. His books have been translated and published in several countries, among which his native Italy, where he also works regularly for "Corriere della Sera" newspaper.
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Robert T. Jeschonek Robert T. Jeschonek (born September 12, 1965) is an American writer and author of essays, articles, comic books, and podcasts. He writes fiction in a wide range of genres, including fantasy, humor, literary, mystery, science fiction, and super-heroes. His work is intended for young readers, young adults, and adult readers. Fantasy author Adrian Phoenix has called him "...the literary love child of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman."
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David A. Carter David A. Carter (born March 4, 1957) is an American author and illustrator. He is best known for his pop-up books for both children and adults. His "Bugs" series has sold over 6 million copies.
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Arnold Roth Arnold Roth (born February 25, 1929) is an American freelance cartoonist and illustrator for advertisements, album covers, books, magazines, and newspapers. Novelist John Updike wrote, "All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so."
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Girl Genius: The Works Girl Genius: The Works is a card game played with a specially designed deck of 108 cards. The game, designed by Phil Foglio and James Ernest, takes its theme from the "gaslamp fantasy" of the "Girl Genius" comic book series. The goal is to be the first player to reach 100 points by "popping" cards out of a two-dimensional layout.
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Ul de Rico "Count Ul de Rico," AKA Ulderico Conte Gropplero di Troppenburg (1944 - ), is an Italian-born artist and author of illustrated children's books, most notably "The Rainbow Goblins" (1978) and its sequel "The White Goblin." (1996) He was also a major artistic contributor to the children's fantasy film "The NeverEnding Story" (1984), based on the book of the same name by Michael Ende.
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Paint Your Dragon Paint Your Dragon is a humorous novel by Tom Holt first published in the UK in 1996 by Orbit and in paper back a year later by St. Martin's Press. It was also made available in electronic format by Hachette Digital in 2009. This was the author's twelfth humorous book and his eighteenth overall. It has been republished as part of Tom Holt's "Omnibus No'7: Saints and Sinners". Inspired by the legend of St. George and the Dragon, the book tells the story of a sculptor, Bianca Wilson, who creates statues of St. George and the Dragon. These statues come to life and carry on their battle where they left off. The story is intertwined with other minor plots that supplement the main theme and ultimately aid it to its conclusion.
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Comic novel A comic novel is a novel-length work of humorous fiction. Many well-known authors have written comic novels, including P. G. Wodehouse, Henry Fielding, Mark Twain, and John Kennedy Toole.
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Jay Hosler Jay Hosler is the author and illustrator of science-oriented comics. He is best known for his graphic novels "Clan Apis", "The Sandwalk Adventures", and "Optical Allusions". "Clan Apis", a Xeric Foundation Award winner, follows the life of a honey bee named Nyuki; the story conveys factual information about honey bees in a humorous fashion as Nyuki learns about each new stage of her life. "The Sandwalk Adventures", an Eisner Award nominee, follows a conversation about evolution between Charles Darwin and a follicle mite living in his left eyebrow. "Optical Allusions", funded in part by a National Science Foundation grant, explains the evolution of the eye and vision by following the story of Wrinkles the Wonderbrain. Hosler is also an entomologist and associate professor of biology at Juniata College.
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Nick Downes Nick Downes is an American cartoonist who works mostly with single-panel comics, often on the subject of science,
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The Penguins of Doom The Penguins of Doom is an epistolary humor novel for children written and illustrated by Greg R. Fishbone. The book was published in October 2007 by Blooming Tree Press.
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The Last Unicorn The Last Unicorn is a fantasy novel by American author Peter S. Beagle and published in 1968, by Viking Press in the U.S. and The Bodley Head in the U.K. It follows the tale of a unicorn, who believes she is the last of her kind in the world and undertakes a quest to discover what has happened to the others. It has sold more than five million copies worldwide since its original publication, and has been translated into at least twenty languages (prior to the 2007 edition). In 1987, "Locus" ranked "The Last Unicorn" number five among the 33 "All-Time Best Fantasy Novels", based on a poll of subscribers. The 1998 rendition of the poll considered many book series as single entries and thus ranked "The Last Unicorn" number 18.
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Andy Fish Andy Fish is a graphic novelist, comic book artist, illustrator, painter, and educator. He is known for his graphic novels and his series of books on how to illustrate in certain styles.
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Honk, the Moose Honk, the Moose is a children's book by Phil Stong. It tells the story of a moose who takes over a small town which causes an uproar when three young boys try to save the moose and make it through the cold Minnesota winter. The book, illustrated by Kurt Wiese, was first published in 1935, and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1936. In 1970, it won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was listed in Cattermole's "100 Best Children's Books of the 20th Century". Based on a true story from Biwabik, Minnesota, it effectively describes the lives of Finnish immigrants there.
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Mal Peet Malcolm Charles Peet (5 October 1947 – 2 March 2015) was an English author and illustrator best known for young adult fiction. He has won several honours including the Brandford Boase, the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize, British children's literature awards that recognise "year's best" books. Three of his novels feature football and the fictional South American sports journalist Paul Faustino. "The Murdstone Trilogy" (2014) is his first work aimed at adult readers.
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Graphic novel A graphic novel is a book made up of comics content. Although the word "novel" normally refers to long fictional works, the term "graphic novel" is applied broadly and includes fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work. It is distinguished from the term "comic book", which is generally used for comics periodicals.