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A Is for Asteroids, Z Is for Zombies
A Bedtime Book about the Coming Apocalypse
A darkly comic fable that offers visions of the apocalypse for every letter of the alphabet. Starting with a father whose son has been asking questions about global dangers, A Is for Asteroids, Z Is for Zombies takes us inside our worst fears, laughing at some and taking others seriously. With macabre verse and fantastically gory illustrations, it provides gallows humor for our doom-haunted times.
- Release Date: October 10, 2017
- Hardcover: 40 pages
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (October 10, 2017)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449486886, ISBN-13: 978-1449486884
About the Author & Illustrator
Paul Lewis
Paul Lewis is the president of the Poe Studies Association and an English professor at Boston College where he teaches courses on American literature, gothic fiction, and nonfiction writing. He brought a career-long interest in dark humor to the writing of A Is for Asteroids, Z Is for Zombies: A Bedtime Book about the Coming Apocalypse (2017), Cracking Up: American Humor in a Time of Conflict (2006), and articles on gallows humor, political humor, and humor and terrorism. The neologist who coined the word “Frankenfood,” Lewis has also published op-ed, feature, and humor pieces in leading newspapers.
Ken Lamug
Kenneth Kit Lamug is an author and illustrator based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is the Illustrator Coordinator for SCBWI Nevada Region. His first children's picture book, A BOX STORY, has won multiple awards including Moonbeam Children's Award, Pinnacle Book Award and The Literary Classics Award. Following the success, Ken worked in other mediums including comics which led to the release of his next book, The Tall Tales of Talbot Toluca. His most recent books include the alphabet parenting parody book, HURTS LIKE A MOTHER, and spooky fairytale picture book, THE STUMPS OF FLATTOP HILL.