Snot Goblins and Other Tasteless Tales

by Rob Kutner, David DeGrand (Illustrator)

Overview

Mucus monsters! Rock-and-rollin’ trolls! All-powerful rotting cat-mummies!

What would YOU do if your boogers tried to take over the world? What if teen-girl ghosts unleashed an army of pooping cockroaches on you?

You’ve got a front-row seat to see kids (and trolls, and vampires) just like you taking on the GROSSEST challenges IN THE WORLD!

So hold your nose, grab your stomach, and get ready for the World’s Most Repulsive Storyteller(TM) to send five tales of disgustingly hilarious horror right into your eye-holes. You won’t know whether to split your sides laughing, hurl chunks, or both!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250780805
Publisher:	First Second
Publication date:	07/25/2023
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	1,075,229
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Rob Kutner is an Emmy-winning TV late-night and animation writer (Daily Show, CONAN, Ben10, Teen Titans Go!), who has also written the sci-fi comedy books Apocalypse How: Turn the End Times into the Best of Times, The Future According to Me, and the graphic novel Shrinkage. He is also writing a Hyperion Avenue book for Marvel Studios, and another middle-grade graphic novel series, InterCats.
He profoundly hopes that Snot Goblins haunts your dreams… with laughter!

David DeGrand has been drawing cartoons ever since being inspired by his fifth grade art teacher. Thirty years later he still enjoys drawing pictures that will either make people laugh or barf (preferably both). He has attempted this noble endeavor in such publications as MAD Magazine, SpongeBob Comics, Garfield and The Simpsons comic books and in animated form by designing the series Death Hacks. He lives in Texas with his wife and two sons.

Editorial Reviews

2023-04-12
Five muco-centric graphic tales in the classic tradition of the Slimeballs and Barf-O-Rama series.

Periodically pausing to reset the mood by chewing up classic books and covering a staring storytime audience with projectile vomit, an outsized rubbery mouth spews out a set of original tales—beginning with one about a child who saves the world from being covered in green slime by loogie monsters in exchange for being appointed school principal. Later entries follow a weak-stomached Romanian vampire who immigrates to America (“Where all are created equal, and some are treated that way!”), lay out a steep cultural learning curve when young Stella’s “bio mom” is replaced by a wrapped stepmummy, show what happens when internet trolls meet real ones, and pit a pair of frustrated ghost hunters against a mob of spectral pranksters. In all of these, DeGrand shows a real talent for lavishing copious quantities of puke, snot, blood, slobber, slime, and goo into his garishly hued cartoon scenes along with endowing the popeyed nonhuman and undead cast members with warty or glutinous skin in a range of noxious shades. Humans present a diverse (and healthier looking) mix of skin colors.

Funny, gross, and clever but definitely not recommended for mealtime reading. (Graphic short stories. 7-10)

Kirkus Reviews

"You'll drown in snot! Yes, this book is gross— and outrageous and funny. I laughed out loud. You will, too!"— R. L. Stine, author of Goosebumps and Fear Street

"Over the top in the best possible way, SNOT GOBLINS is a great read!"—Lincoln Peirce, author of Big Nate

“It’s killer! The 10 year old in me went bonkers!"—Jim Paillot, illustrator of My Weird School

“I have not read this book, but based on the cover alone, I’m just going to go ahead and predict that it will be crowned the next Great American Novel, on par with Moby Dick and The Great Gatsby.” — “Weird Al” Yankovic

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