Overview
In the second book of this new, highly illustrated middle grade series by the nationally syndicated cartoonist of “In the Bleachers,” Steve reprises his role as perpetual bench-warmer. Perfect for fans of Timmy Failure and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, King of the Bench is an ode to teammates, underdogs, and bench-warmers everywhere.
Steve is King of the Bench. No brag. That’s just a fact. And this season, Steve and his friends are ready to sit on the sidelines of the Spiro T. Agnew Middle school football field. But then they stumble upon an old-school video game controller, and they become convinced it can control sports plays. With it, Steve might become King of Football too!
Oh, and if you’re wondering why Steve would write a book and tell complete strangers about a mysterious magic device that pretty much controlled his first season on the football team, too bad! It’s a strict rule when writing a book that you have to build suspense first.
Details
Language:
English
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
224
Publisher:
HarperCollins
About the Author
Alan Moore, born in Northampton, England, in 1953, is a writer, performer, recording artist, activist, and magician. His comic-book work includes Lost Girls (2006) with Melinda Gebbie, From Hell (1999) with Eddie Campbell, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (for which he won a Bram Stoker Award in 2000) with Kevin O’Neill. He has worked with director Mitch Jenkins on the Show Pieces cycle of short films and on the feature film The Show, while his novels include Voice of the Fire (1996) and his epic Jerusalem (2016). A short story collection, Illuminations (2022), and his forthcoming Long London series of novels are from Bloomsbury. He lives in Northampton with his wife and collaborator Melinda Gebbie.
Often described as the man who led Alan Moore astray (usually by Alan himself), Steve Moore (1949–2014) was a cranky old hermit who hardly lived in the 21st century at all. Starting in comics in the 1970s, he wrote mainly science-fiction and fantasy strips (sometimes under the name Pedro Henry) for a variety of British and American publishers, including titles such as Jonni Future, Laser-Eraser & Pressbutton, and Tales of Telguuth. Occasionally taking a break to work on nonfiction in the oriental, historical and Fortean fields, he wrote on the I Ching (The Trigrams of Han) and edited the scholarly journal Fortean Studies. The year 2006 saw his novelization of the movie V for Vendetta, and 2011 saw his original novel, Somnium. The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic is the result of a lifelong collaboration with Alan Moore. A Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, he lived in London, and was neither related to Alan Moore nor anywhere near as hairy.
John Coulthart is an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer. His work as a comic artist is contained in two books: The Haunter of the Dark and Other Grotesque Visions, a collection of Lovecraft adaptations which features a unique collaboration with Alan Moore, and Lord Horror: Reverbstorm, a graphic novel written by David Britton. His interest in the occult began with his mother"s paperback of The Black Arts by Richard Cavendish and her back issues of Man, Myth & Magic. He lives in Manchester, UK.
Ben Wickey is a Massachusetts-born artist, writer, and animator. He is the illustrator of Ki Longfellow"s The Illustrated Vivian Stanshall and the director of several stop-motion animated short films, including the award-winning The House of the Seven Gables. He lives in California with his beloved wife and cat.
Kevin O’Neill (1953–2022) was the British comics illustrator best known as the co-creator of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (with Alan Moore), Marshal Law (with writer Pat Mills), and Nemesis the Warlock for 2000AD (also with Pat Mills). With one of the most unique and detailed styles in comics, he earned an enormous worldwide fanbase that persists to this day.
Steve Parkhouse began his comics career in 1968 at the age of nineteen, working as a gofer in the Marvel Comics bullpen in New York City. He was accompanied by his art school buddy Barry Windsor-Smith, who was then a budding comic-book artist. He was fortunate enough to rub shoulders with many Marvel stalwarts. It was there he learned that comics could, and should, be fun. Taking that knowledge back to his native Britain, he wrote gags for children’s comics for the next three years and learned how to draw basic cartoons. There he met British luminaries like Steve Moore, Dez Skinn, Paul Neary, Dave Gibbons, and eventually some wannabe called Alan Moore. Persuaded by Dez Skinn to raise his sights and contribute to Warrior magazine, he found himself drawing cartoons yet again, with a script by the aforementioned A. Moore. With the main objective of lifting British comics output to a more meaningful level, Warrior magazine came and went. The survivors were picked up by DC Comics, and the rest, as they say, is comics history.
Rick Veitch is a lifelong cartoonist with a resume of thirty-seven graphic novels and innumerable comic books, including Swamp Thing, Can’t Get No, Army@Love, and the Eisner-nominated cult classics Brat Pack, The Maximortal, and Rare Bit Fiends (his dream diary in comic book form). He is co-founder of Eureka Comics, specializing in creating comics for learning and literacy with clients such as WNET, Wired magazine, the International Monetary Fund, McGraw Hill Education, the University of Vermont, and the Vermont Folklife Center. He was named Vermont State Cartoonist Laureate in 2020. He lives and works from his home in West Townshend, Vermont.
Often described as the man who led Alan Moore astray (usually by Alan himself), Steve Moore (1949–2014) was a cranky old hermit who hardly lived in the 21st century at all. Starting in comics in the 1970s, he wrote mainly science-fiction and fantasy strips (sometimes under the name Pedro Henry) for a variety of British and American publishers, including titles such as Jonni Future, Laser-Eraser & Pressbutton, and Tales of Telguuth. Occasionally taking a break to work on nonfiction in the oriental, historical and Fortean fields, he wrote on the I Ching (The Trigrams of Han) and edited the scholarly journal Fortean Studies. The year 2006 saw his novelization of the movie V for Vendetta, and 2011 saw his original novel, Somnium. The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic is the result of a lifelong collaboration with Alan Moore. A Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, he lived in London, and was neither related to Alan Moore nor anywhere near as hairy.
John Coulthart is an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer. His work as a comic artist is contained in two books: The Haunter of the Dark and Other Grotesque Visions, a collection of Lovecraft adaptations which features a unique collaboration with Alan Moore, and Lord Horror: Reverbstorm, a graphic novel written by David Britton. His interest in the occult began with his mother"s paperback of The Black Arts by Richard Cavendish and her back issues of Man, Myth & Magic. He lives in Manchester, UK.
Ben Wickey is a Massachusetts-born artist, writer, and animator. He is the illustrator of Ki Longfellow"s The Illustrated Vivian Stanshall and the director of several stop-motion animated short films, including the award-winning The House of the Seven Gables. He lives in California with his beloved wife and cat.
Kevin O’Neill (1953–2022) was the British comics illustrator best known as the co-creator of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (with Alan Moore), Marshal Law (with writer Pat Mills), and Nemesis the Warlock for 2000AD (also with Pat Mills). With one of the most unique and detailed styles in comics, he earned an enormous worldwide fanbase that persists to this day.
Steve Parkhouse began his comics career in 1968 at the age of nineteen, working as a gofer in the Marvel Comics bullpen in New York City. He was accompanied by his art school buddy Barry Windsor-Smith, who was then a budding comic-book artist. He was fortunate enough to rub shoulders with many Marvel stalwarts. It was there he learned that comics could, and should, be fun. Taking that knowledge back to his native Britain, he wrote gags for children’s comics for the next three years and learned how to draw basic cartoons. There he met British luminaries like Steve Moore, Dez Skinn, Paul Neary, Dave Gibbons, and eventually some wannabe called Alan Moore. Persuaded by Dez Skinn to raise his sights and contribute to Warrior magazine, he found himself drawing cartoons yet again, with a script by the aforementioned A. Moore. With the main objective of lifting British comics output to a more meaningful level, Warrior magazine came and went. The survivors were picked up by DC Comics, and the rest, as they say, is comics history.
Rick Veitch is a lifelong cartoonist with a resume of thirty-seven graphic novels and innumerable comic books, including Swamp Thing, Can’t Get No, Army@Love, and the Eisner-nominated cult classics Brat Pack, The Maximortal, and Rare Bit Fiends (his dream diary in comic book form). He is co-founder of Eureka Comics, specializing in creating comics for learning and literacy with clients such as WNET, Wired magazine, the International Monetary Fund, McGraw Hill Education, the University of Vermont, and the Vermont Folklife Center. He was named Vermont State Cartoonist Laureate in 2020. He lives and works from his home in West Townshend, Vermont.
