About this item
Suspend your disbelief with Science Comics: Bridges, a new volume of First Second's STEM graphic novel series!Follow Bea, Archie, Trudy, and Spencer (otherwise known as the BATS!) as they crisscross the globe using every type of bridge: beam, arch, truss, and suspension. From ancient low-slung rope bridges to modern hi-tech towers of steel, they'll traverse 'em all. Their journey will take them through history and connect them with new ideas and different cultures. Along the way they'll identify the dangerous forces trying to bring bridges crashing down, and how to defeat them ... through engineering!
About the Author
Dan Zettwoch is a cartoonist, illustrator and printmaker living and working in St. Louis. In addition to many self-published mini-comics his stories have appeared in Kramers Ergot, the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror, Comic Art magazine, The Best American Comics and Yale University's Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories. His first full-length graphic novel BIRDSEYE BRISTOE was published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2012, and most recently his work appears in the AMAZING FACTS & BEYOND with co-authors Kevin Huizenga and Leon Beyond (Uncivilized Books, 2013) . He is also currently working on a series of homemade screenprints commemorating St. Louis Folk Icons, gross foods and baseball statistics. He always has ink all over himself.
