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Scholastic To Publish A New Graphic Novel By Dav Pilkey, The #1 Global Bestselling Author And Award-Winning Illustrator Of Dog Man
"CAT KID COMIC CLUB: ON PURPOSE" TO BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE ON APRIL 5, 2022 NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic, the global children's
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[{"type":"text","content":"\"CAT KID COMIC CLUB: ON PURPOSE\" TO BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE ON APRIL 5, 2022\n\n\nNEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, today announced that it will publish Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose, an all-new title in the #1 New York Times bestselling and acclaimed Cat Kid Comic Club graphic novel series, a spin-off to the global publishing phenomenon Dog Man by Dav Pilkey. Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose will be published simultaneously in hardcover and ebook on April 5, 2022 in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia and New Zealand, and will follow the publication of Cat Kid Comic Club: Perspectives released this week.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nCat Kid Comic Club launched last year to multiple starred reviews with Publishers Weekly praising it as \"Irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny and—gosh darn it—downright moving, it's a heartfelt celebration of coming into one's own as an artist, with all its frustrations and joys.\" School Library Journal, also in a starred review, raved that Cat Kid Comic Club is \"Colorful, compelling, and laugh-out-loud funny. Every elementary school library needs this graphic novel.\" The launch of Cat Kid Comic Club marked Dav Pilkey's 34 years of publishing bestselling and award-winning books for children. His first graphic novel, The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, was published in 2002, fourteen years before the release of the first Dog Man graphic novel.\nPushing the boundaries of visual storytelling in Cat Kid Comic Club, Dav Pilkey uses a variety of techniques to illustrate each of his character's art styles including photography, paper models, poetry, clay, collage, calligraphy, gouache, watercolors, and more. Paired with Pilkey's trademark humor and heart, this mixed media approach to storytelling is exemplified in the \"mini-comics\" in each of the Cat Kid Comic Club books. In the first Cat Kid Comic Club book (published December 1, 2020) readers got to see the progress, mistakes, and improvements that come with practice and persistence. In Cat Kid Comic Club: Perspectives (November 30, 2021), the characters have different ways of seeing the world and discover new ways to collaborate and see one another's points of view. In the forthcoming Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose (April 5, 2022), Pilkey's characters are each trying to find th...