About this item
The Terribles might be monsters, but they're also kids just like you! Well, sort of. This hilarious peek into the world of vampires, mummies, swamp-things, and bigfoots (bigfeet?) is perfect for fans of the Hotel Transylvania movies.Vampires, mummies, and gelatinous balls of goo (oh my!) . That's right, monsters are real and they've settled down on the quiet island of Creep's Cove. It's a pretty typical place: houses, stores, portals to various nightmarish parallel dimensions. And a school for the kids. Meet Vlad, the fame-thirsty vampire,Allie, a stuffed animal-dissecting alien,Lizzie, a short-tempered kaiju, and many others! Told in alternating chapters, comics, poems, charts, and activities each focused on different classic spooky characters this book is the introduction to monsters you humans have been waiting for.
About the Author
Travis Nichols is a writer, illustrator, Texan, and cartoonist living in San Francisco. He is the author and illustrator of Fowl Play, Monstrous Fun, Matthew Meets the Man, The Monster Doodle Book, and Punk Rock Etiquette: The Ultimate How-To Guide for DIY, Punk, Indie, and Underground Bands, which was awarded a Blue Ribbon by the Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books and was nominated by YALSA as one of the 2009 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults. His comics appeared in the late, great Nickelodeon Magazine (RIP) . One of his comics was listed in the Best American Comics 2006 anthology. He has played in more than a dozen bands you've probably never heard of (how's THAT for indie cred? !) , and he enjoys meteorites and eating watermelon over the sink. Find him at iamtravisnichols.com.
