Sniegoski was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his wife, LeeAnne, and their Labrador retriever, Mulder. Please visit the author at www.sniegoski.com.
ERIC POWELL is the writer and artist of the award-winning comic book series The Goon for Dark Horse Comics. He has also contributed work to such comic titles as Arkham Asylum, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy: Weird Tales, Star Wars Tales, The Incredible Hulk, MAD Magazine, Swamp Thing, and The Simpsons.
Text copyright © 2007 by Thomas E. Sniegoski
Illustrations copyright © 2007 by Eric Powell
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sniegoski, Tom. Billy Hooten, Owlboy / by Thomas E. Sniegoski; [illustrations by Eric Powell].
p. cm.
Summary: Unassuming twelve-year-old Billy Hooten, who loves reading superhero comic
books, suddenly learns that he has been chosen to become the next Owlboy, whose destiny it is
to save the inhabitants of Monstros, a city underneath the cemetary next to Billy's house.
eISBN: 978-0-307-49412-2
[1. Heroes—Fiction. 2. Monsters—Fiction. 3. Cartoons and comics—Fiction.]
I. Powell, Eric, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.S68033Bi 2007
[Fic]—dc22
2007001552
July 2007
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