And that was all before she found out that the third volume was coming out. She wanted me and her to somehow learn to fly so that she can be Five and I can be Eight for Halloween that year. She renamed my wife Strong Strong, just because. Her fourth birthday party was themed around Zita. Just as other children do, she has often been found sleeping with one volume or another of the series. And it is a superb read for kids, and probably pretty fun for grown-ups.Īnd really, as much as I love hearing about how much these children love Hatke's books, the thing I love most about Zita The Spacegirl is how much my own daughter loves the series.
It’s Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey-only instead of two dogs and a cat, it’s just a lone lost girl who becomes something bigger than she is. Zita the Spacegirl (and its follow-ups) relates the adventures of a reluctant hero, Zita, a girl sucked from our end of the galaxy to another end of another galaxy. When kids get to the third volume, it knocks their socks off. Zita The Spacegirl is a very good graphic novel series. It's amazing, and playing a part in kids finding a story to inhabit fills me with a tremendous sense of joy. Stories of little girls going to sleep clutching a volume. Video reviews with kids saying how good the books are and thanking me for recommending them. Pictures of kids holding up Zita The Spacegirl. Little emails, tweets, vines (when those were a thing), instagram photos tagged to me, people stopping me in Starbucks. One of the biggest joys of the last several years has been all the notes of thanks I've received for recommending Ben Hatke's Zita The Spacegirl. It’s going to be a busy few years for him! So if you want to find more – head over to his website at Graphic Novel Recommendation 212 Zita The Spacegirl Following that in October will be his first ever picture book, called “Julia’s House for Lost Creatures”. And it’s extremely fun to draw.įor the last few years Hatke has been busy working on his Zita the Spacegirl series, which concludes this May with “The Return of Zita the Spacegirl”. Little Robot is my first post-Zita graphic novel, and while it’s still got some of my hallmarks (robots and adventures!) it’s also a more intimate story about one friendship and one summer. And now he’s found his way into a book of his own. But for some reason, I kept returning to that Little Robot and he kept on doing interesting things and developing a personality without a whole lot of conscious thought on my part. I had intended it to be a one-off, just a little expression of how I felt that day. It looked like this: content/uploads/robot1.jpg.
In 2012 I drew a little comic strip about a robot. Edited by First Second’s senior editor Calista Brill, Little Robot is a story about friendship – an unusual one perhaps, but a strong one – which develops over one hazy Summer season.
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