You Might Be a Monster : & Other Stories I Made Up!
Attaboy
Hardcover
(Immedium, Jan. 1, 2011)
\'Attaboy\'s creepy cool monsters are an insane delight. They\'ll leap off the page, squirm through your kid\'s optic nerve, and haunt her brain forever.\'?BoingBoing \'Attaboy creates a contradictory land where everything comes with sharp pointy teeth but works a way into your heart with their deceptive charms.\'?Clutter Magazine What if you combined Shel Silverstein and Tim Burton with a dollop of Dr. Seuss? You\'d get Attaboy. With a theatrical eye for the absurd and unbridled paintbrush, his hilarious anthology of illustrated poems will amuse everyone who is a kid at heart. In his trademark style of bold color and twisted humor, Attaboy\'s baker\'s dozen of zany rhymes introduce off-the-wall characters (a child who is a sock magnet), highlights the adorably peculiar (a hugging cactus), and juxtaposes the mundane (counting sheep to sleep) with the bizarre (zombie clowns). Then there\'s the title story. Because of his beastly behavior, Gustav\'s parents hire an expert to determine if their son is truly a monster! \'Do you chew with BOTH your mouths open?\' If you answer \'yes\' then more crazy creatures follow! Enjoy hidden jokes and hilarious wordplay in this collection from an irreverent twenty-first century imagination. Attaboy is an internationally renowned gallery artist who successfully modernized classic toys and games for Hasbro and created stationary for Dark Horse Comics. The Disney Channel broadcast his animation Too Many Robots. He co-founded the quarterly popular art magazine Hi-Fructose whose collected volumes Last Gasp has been published.