The Moolah Tree

by Ted Stearn

Overview

A bear and chicken have darkly comic adventures in this Winnie the Pooh-for-adults-esque graphic novel.

Pluck, an irritable and featherless rooster, and his best pal, the awkward-but-lovable teddy bear known as Fuzz, met long ago in a garbage truck. A tenuous—if decidedly co-dependent—friendship followed, sending them on a series of not-so-heroic adventures. But now, we find them on a ramshackle barge, slowly drifting out to sea. How did they get there? How will they escape?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781606999660
Publisher:	Fantagraphics Books
Publication date:	10/25/2016
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	16 Years

About the Author

Ted Stearn, born in Massachusetts, is an L.A.-based cartoonist and animator. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and the School of Visual Arts, he segued into a career in animation, working on such series as Futurama, King of the Hill, and Beavis and Butthead. He has also taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design. In 2014, he won Best Series at the international Angoulême comics festival.

Editorial Reviews

11/14/2016
Stearn’s anxious dim-witted teddy bear (Fuzz) and angry defeathered rooster (Pluck) return in their third outing with more bizarre, dark humored adventures. The story opens with them lost at sea on a small raft, using their own body parts to bait fishing lines. Soon after this grizzly task they are rescued by a squid fishing boat and then just as abruptly kidnapped by a trio of inept pirates. From their captors the pair learn of the fabled Moolah Tree, which grows dollars in place of leaves. They are quickly swept up in a series of wild chases, escapes, deals, double-crossings and thefts as the search for the Moolah Tree continues. Stearn’s simply drawn cartoon protagonists–presented in a Dr. Seuss pastiche–move through a richly rendered world of dramatic mountains and ramshackle pirate ships cutting through stormy seas, in a bleakly funny parable as the opportunity of unlimited riches floats just beyond reach for the hapless duo. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly