OTIS DOODA: STRANGE BUT TRUE

Meet Otis Dooda. Yes, that's his name. Go on and have a good laugh. He's heard it all before. He's been called things like Otis Poopy Stink and Otis Toilet Twinkie. That's right, yuck it up and get it out of your system. We'll wait.

All right then. This is the story of Otis and the Dooda family (including their rat named Smoochie) moving to New York City, and the incredibly strange, but true, things that happened to them. It all started with Otis getting cursed by a guy in a potted plant in their apartment building lobby, and then meeting a bunch of their neighbors, including a farting pony named Peaches who was disguised as a dog. And that was just the first day.

Ellen Potter is the acclaimed writer of the Olivia Kidney series (Philomel); Slob (Philomel April 2009); Pish Posh (Philomel 2006); The Kneebone Boy (Feiwel and Friends 2011); The Humming Room(Feiwel and Friends 2012); and has written a writer's guide for kids, Spilling Ink (Roaring Brook Press 2010). Her work has been heralded as containing “dashes of Dahl, snippets of Snicket, and heaps of Horvath” (Booklist). She and her family live in Maine.

David Heatley is an American cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer and musician. His comics and illustrations have appeared on the cover of The New Yorker, in The New York Times, McSweeney's, Mome, and Kramers Ergot, among others. He has also been featured three times inthe Best American Comics series. Fantagraphics has published two issues of his solo comic book series, Deadpan, and Pantheon Books released his first award­winning graphic novel, My Brain is Hanging Upside Down, in September 2008. Otis Dooda is his first children's book.