Urban Legendz - Hardcover

Downs, Paul; Bruno, Nick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594657149 ISBN 13: 9781594657146

Publisher: BiG, 2019

Synopsis

After his mother's death, teen Dwayne is forced to uproot himself and move into the home where his mother grew up: a shabby apartment in Brooklyn. Overshadowed by his socially salient older brother, and pressured by his policeman father, Dwayne often feels out of place, a sentiment that is only intensified in these unfamiliar surroundings. Before too long, however, his personal problems are cast aside when he gets suckered into joining a new crew of young vigilantes, devoted to solving a series of sinister cases surrounding mysterious monsters that have been wreaking havoc throughout the city.

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Review

"Seems like the ideal book for fans of Stranger Things."--COMICON.COM

"An old-school Brooklyn twist on the 1980s coming-of-age tale with eerie themes, a sub-genre that seems supernaturally popular these days."--DEADLINE

"The great thing about the book is that adventure amounts to something. It isn't just the monsters that are the bad guys in this story, but the idea of gentrification of a community embracing all of the different peoples that make it thrive."--FANBASE PRESS

"The debut graphic novel from a team with an impressive animated pedigree."--THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"In a touching graphic novel for all ages from Humanoids about lose, friendship, scary stories, and new beginnings Urban Legendz treats its readers with colorfully playful art and an adventure every kid wishes they could explore."--COMIC WATCH

About the Author

Paul Downs is a screenwriter, animator and educator with seventeen years of experience spanning film, commercial and video game production. Paul has written and developed projects for Cartoon Network, 20th Century Fox, and a live-action family film being produced by Smart Entertainment (Blades of Glory, Anger Management, Paul's animation credits include Robots, Ice Age franchise, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who, Rio, Epic, Free Birds, Spies in Disguise, the 2017 Oscar(R) nominated fim Ferdinand as well as the two short films Surviving Sid and the Oscar(R) nominated No Time for Nuts. Paul lives in Florida, with his wife Jen and their two children, where he teaches Story/Animation at Ringling College of Art and Design.

Nick Bruno is an American film director and animator at Blue Sky Studios, who in 2019 will make his Directorial debut with the animated Spies in Disguise. Bruno was born and raised in Mohegan Lake, New York, where, at an early age, he learned he could combine his love for drawing and filmmaking by pursuing a career in animation. He studied illustration and the fine arts at UMass Dartmouth, and went on to receive his Masters at NYU studying computer animation. In 2005, Bruno joined Blue Sky Studios as a junior animator on the feature film Ice Age: The Meltdown. In 2015, VARIETY named Bruno one of their "Ten Animators to Watch." Bruno resides in New York state with his wife Allison and their three children.

Michael Yates is a story artist and director living in Northern California. He currently works as a story artist at PIXAR Animation Studios where his credits include Cars 3 and the upcoming Toy Story. Before that, Michael worked on Guillermo Del Toro's Trollhunters at DreamWorks Animation Studios. His previous clients include Walt Disney Animation studios and the Cartoon Network series Craig of the Creek. He also co-directed the award winning short Legend of the Flying Tomato.

About this edition

• Publisher: BiG
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1594657149
• ISBN 13: 9781594657146
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112
• Illustrator: Yates Michael