Sunday September 23, 2012 at Queen's Park, 11am - 6pm
Evan Munday
Event Info: This Is Not The Shakespeare Stage at 12:00 PM
Evan Munday is the illustrator of the novel Stripmalling, written by Jon Paul Fiorentino (ECW Press), and is the cartoonist behind the self-published comic book, Quarter-Life Crisis, set in a post-apocalyptic Toronto. He works as a book publicist for Coach House Books. The Dead Kid Detective Agency is Evan’s first novel and features his own illustrations. The Laws of Motion, a graphic novel written by Elyse Friedman and illustrated by Evan, will be published in fall 2011 by Freehand Books. He lives in Toronto.
Books
The Dead Kid Detective Agency
Being thirteen is hard enough, but October Schwartz has the deck stacked against her: she’s new in town, she’s starting grade nine early at Sticksville Central High (where her clinically depressed single father is a teacher), and she looks different from most kids, being a bit chubby, and fond of the Goth look. Feeling isolated October spends most of her time working on her horror novel in the Sticksville Cemetery. It’s in the cemetery that October encounters the ghosts of 5 dead teenagers. Each of the dead kids died mysteriously at the age of thirteen during different eras in Canadian history. Capitalizing on October’s smarts and the dead kids’ ability to walk through walls, this motley crew forms The Dead Kid Detective Agency. Their first case: investigate the suspicious death of beloved French teacher Mr. O’Shea.
