George O'Connor is an author, illustrator and cartoonist. His first graphic novel, Journey Into Mohawk Country, used as its sole text the actual historical journal of the seventeenth-century Dutch trader Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, and told the true story of how New York almost wasn't. He followed that up with Ball Peen Hammer, the first graphic novel written by playwright Adam Rapp, a dark, dystopian view of a society's collapse. Now he has brought his attention to Olympians, an ongoing series retelling the classic Greek myths in comics form. In addition to his graphic novel career, O'Connor has published several children's picture books, including the New York Times best-selling Kapow, Sally and the Some-Thing, and Uncle Bigfoot. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
George O'Connor is the author of several picture books, including the
New York Times bestseller
Kapow!,
Kersplash, and
Sally and the Some-thing. His debut graphic novel,
Journey into Mohawk Country, was published by First Second, as was Adam Rapp's
Ball Peen Hammer, which O'Connor illustrated. His series
The Olympians includes such titles as
Poseidon,
Hera,
Athena,
Hades, and
Zeus.