Zooms academy by jason lethcoe biography
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Zoom Zoom Zoom!
Jason Lethcoe
by Adrienne Rappaport
Jason Lethcoe is a father, an animator, and a big fan of good old fashioned children's stories. Me, I'm thankful he has combined the traits and created a lovely new comic called Zoom's Academy for the Super Gifted.
It's the story of 13 year-old girl named Summer, and it's a tale for children and adults. I discovered the comic when Jason came to do a signing at our local comic book store. I took it home; I read it; I thought to myself, "Now how often do we get anything new and good these days for all ages to read?" Jason was kind enough to take the time to talk to me about Zoom's, so that I could share his story with all of you.
Sequential Tart: How did you get started working in comics?
Jason Lethcoe: I had always been interested in comics. Y'know, since I was little I had been drawing them. I had met Jack Kirby when I was in High School. He lived in the neighborhood and I just looked him up in the phon
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Lethcoe, Jason
PERSONAL:
Married (divorced); married; second wife's name Nancy; children: Olivia, Alex, Emie.
ADDRESSES:
E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Children's author and cartoonist. Disney Studios, former character animator and storyboard artist for films, including The Pagemaster, The Tigger Movie, and Surf's Up.
WRITINGS:
FOR CHILDREN
(Self-illustrated) Amazing Adventures from Zoom's Academy (graphic novel), Ballantine (New York, NY), 2005.
(Self-illustrated) Amazing Adventures from Zoom's Academy: The Capture of the Crimson Cape (graphic novel), Ballantine (New York, NY), 2006.
The Mysterious Mr. Spines ("Wings," Number 1), Grosset & Dunlap (New York, NY), 2009.
SELF-ILLUSTRATED; "THE MISADVENTURES OF BENJAMIN BARTHOLOMEW PIFF" SERIES
You Wish, Grosset & Dunlap (New York, NY), 2007.
Wishful Thinking, Grosset & Dunlap (New York, NY), 2007.
Wishing Well, Grosset & Dunlap (New York, NY), 2007.
Wish You Were Here, Gross
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AMAZING ADVENTURES FROM ZOOM’S ACADEMY
With Rumpelstiltskin and his band of villains still on the loose, the students and staff of Fairy Tale Reform School are on high alert as they prepare for the next attack.
Classes are devoted to teaching battle techniques and conjuring new weapons, which narrator Gilly finds preferable to learning history or manners. But Maxine, her ogress friend, has had it with all the doom and gloom. The last straw is when the agenda at the Royal Lady-in-Waiting meeting is changed from “How to Plan the Perfect Fairy Garden Party” to designing flying rocks and creating flower darts. While on a class field trip to the village to investigate their future careers, Maxine finds a magic lamp housing a genie named Darlene. Her wish that everyone be happy works a little too well. War preparations are put on hold as the school fills with flowers, laughter, and plans for a musical production. But when Gilly is tapped to fill in for the local chief of the dwarf poli