Otto's Orange Day (Toon Books: Easy-To-Read Comics, Level 3)

Jay Lynch, who wrote Otto’s story, was born in Orange, NJ, (honest, ORANGE, NJ!), and now lives in upstate New York with his wife, his dog, and way too many cats. He is the founder ofBijou Funnies, one of the first and most important underground comics of the Sixties, and for many years wrote the weekly syndicated comic strip,Phoebe and the Pigeon People. He has helped create some Topps Chewing Gum’s most popular humor products, such asWacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids.

Frank Cammuso, who drew Otto’s adventure, lives in Syracuse, New York, where he is the award-winning political cartoonist for theSyracuse Post-Standard. He is the Eisner-nominated creator of Max Hamm Fairy Tale Detective, selected as one of the Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2006 by Booklist, and is at work onKnights of the Lunch Table, a middle school version of King Arthur and his Knights. His writing has appeared inThe New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice and Slate.
From the Hardcover edition.