Next month Oni Press will launch Quinnelope and the Cookie King Catastrophe. The all-ages graphic novel is the debut for the inventive workforce of H.F. Brownfield and Kayla Coombs. It follows the titular Quinnelope on a quest to find why all the cookies in Pleasant Towne have gone lacking. Today The Beat is happy to supply an unique preview of the graphic novel.
Here’s how Oni Press describes Quinnelope and the Cookie King Catastrophe:
Quinnelope wakes up one morning to be taught all the cookies in her kingdom have gone lacking. Dun dun DuUuuUUuUUUnNN!!!! The bakery and grocery retailer aisles are filled with muffins however NO COOKIES. What is a cookie-obsessed queen imagined to do?! Solve the thriller of the cookie disaster, in fact! Along along with her dutiful butler, Bub, and dependable companion, Star, the trio set out on a mission to seek out the lacking cookies and restore these tasty treats to Pleasant Towne as soon as once more.
But their quest isn’t as straightforward because it sounds. Womp-wompppp. They’ll must battle via a cookie-dough volcano, confront the chocolate chipmunk mountain, face off towards egg-splosive enemies, and extra in order to trace down the lacking Cookie King. Will Quinnelope have the ability to deliver the Cookie King and his scrumptious cookies again to her kingdom, or will she be doomed to eat crummy muffins endlessly?
In a press release again when the graphic novel was introduced, Brownfield and Coombs each spoke about the themes at play in the e book, and about their collaboration:
“Writing this book was an absolute blast!” mentioned Kayla Coombs. “Brownfield and I have the same goofy sense of humor, so each page was a chance to crack each other up. There were moments when we laughed so hard, we could barely hold our pencils steady! We had a ball drawing Quinnelope to life, and we hope you’ll find her just as hilarious as we do.”
“Quinnelope, Bub and Star are the focus of our series,” mentioned HF Brownfield. “We wanted these characters to be relatable and hilarious. Quinnelope is big-hearted, wacky and imaginative with main-character energy while Bub is the ever-nervous planner and Star is the carefree, snarky commentator of the group. There’s something kids and parents alike can have a laugh over with this goody crew at the helm of our story.”
Check out the unique excerpt from the graphic novel under. Quinnelope and the Cookie King Catastrophe is due out in bookstores on Tuesday, September nineteenth, and in comedian retailers on Wednesday, September twentieth.
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