Jonathan Ebel

Jonathan Ebel is a teenage boy who is living with autism. He loves to draw, especially cartoon characters. Jonathan started by drawing the characters he saw in animated movies. As he got better he started to create his own characters and stories. When Jonathan was 13 his team decided to channel his love of drawing and creating stories into a comic book, The Magic Pencil, et. al. It took Jonathan one full year to write and illustrate the 3 stories in this book. Later he published one of the stories, The Magic Pencil, as a children's book.

Jonathan has since written and illustrated 2 more books: The Lost Penguins from Antartica and The Rise of Pepe book 1 of the Pepe Trilogy. He is currently working on book 2 The Fall of Pepe.

Jonathan also loves to create with Legos and clay. He has done clay modeling with his art teacher, Michelle Chae. They have spent many fun hours creating clay figures of movie characters as well as some of Jonathan's own characters. Jonathan's dream is to become an animator at a major motion picture company!