Cartoon-Me Interviews Red Panda and Hippo …
November 14th, 2014 by jules
As you can see, I’m doing something totally different today.
That’s the cartoonized version of me up there, interviewing the two main characters of an upcoming graphic novel for children, called Hippopotamister. Springing from the mind of comics creator John Green (pictured right), who lives in Brooklyn and is best known for Teen Boat, his collaboration with Dave Roman, Hippopotamister is Green’s solo debut. It’s a comic geared at younger children and tells the story of Hippo and his friend, Red Panda. They live in the city zoo but head out to get jobs in the bustling world of humans. (Hippo becomes the titular Hippopotamister — just to survive out in the big city.) Red Panda finds the occupational world challenging, and even though Hippo excels at each job he secures, Red Panda manages to get them fired. The book is scheduled for an early-2016 release from First Second.
You can read a great process essay from John here at School Library Journal, as well as this interview at The Beat. (P.S. Mr. Schu got cartoonized, too.)
I thank John for visiting. This makes the second time I’ve interviewed wise-crackin’ animals. (Punk Farm was my first.)
Art is copyright © 2014 by John Green and used by his permission.
Photo of John Green taken by Ellen B. Wright.
Yes!!! Really different and so cool!!!
Such fun!
Cartoonized you is adorbs!
This whole thing looks really fun. (And a blogger? TOTALLY a kind of lumberjack.)