Flash Gordon Adventures is an all-ages series by the award-winning creative team of Art Baltazar and Franco! Perfect for fans of Tiny Titans and Itty Bitty Hellboy!
Join Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, Dr. Zarkov and their allies from Lexray as they battle the evil tyrant, Ming the Merciless. Readers will be thrilled by Flash Gordon and his friend’s zany adventures, while enjoying valuable, but humorous life lessons learned about friendship, teamwork, and how alien-world gravity affects the digestive system, why a lizard machine is important for making new lizards and why Zarkov develops a way to make fake beards for Ming to wear.
CREATORS
Art Baltazar
FRANCO
Franco is the co-creator of Patrick the Wolf Boy and AW YEAH COMICS! Franco created the DINO-MIKE book series and worked for various Comic properties including critically the acclaimed SUPERMAN FAMILY ADVENTURES, YOUNG JUSTICE, BILLY BATSON and the MAGIC of SHAZAM, SUPERPOWERS, ARKHAMANIACS and the New York Times bestseller, multi-Eisner award and Harvey award winning series TINY TITANS for DC Comics! GRIMISS ISLAND and Eisner Award winning ITTY BITTY HELLBOY with Dark Horse Comics and Little ARCHIE for Archie Comics. His latest work include DEADMAN TELLS THE SPOOKY TALES (DC Comics) and his original graphic novels THE GHOST, THE OWL (Ringo Award Nominated) and FAE AND THE MOON (Little Bee).
His new book TEEN TITANS GO to the LIBRARY is out now!
Franco was also a High School teacher for 24 years. Franco is a painter and has shown work in galleries. Franco is one of the principal owners of AW YEAH COMICS retail stores.
Stan Sakai
Stan was born in Kyoto, Japan, and grew up in Hawaii. He began his comic book career by lettering Sergio Aragones’ Groo the Wanderer. He also worked with Stan Lee, lettering the Spider-Man Sunday newspaper strips for twenty-five years. Stan is most famous for his original creation, Usagi Yojimbo, an epic graphic novel series that began in 1984 and now spans more than forty volumes. It stars Miyamoto Usagi, a samurai rabbit living in early seventeenth century Japan. Usagi has been published in eighteen languages and Stan has been honored with a number of awards including twelve Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, two Harvey Awards including one for Best Cartoonist, the Japanese American National Museum’s Cultural Ambassador Award, two National Cartoonists Society Silver Reubens, a Parents’ Choice Award, the inaugural Joe Kubert Excellence in Storytelling Award, and an American Library Association Award. Because of his meticulous research into the history, culture, and folklore of Japan, Usagi Yojimbo is a favorite among educators as a curriculum tool. Usagi has been a part of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in their TV series, comic book crossovers, and toy lines. In 2020 Stan was inducted into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame.
“I grew up reading the classic Alex Raymond Flash Gordon and this version is a fun new take on the characters. I really enjoyed it!”
Maria Scrivan
Maria Scrivan is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning syndicated cartoonist. The first book in her graphic novel series, Nat Enough (Scholastic/Graphix), became an instant New York Times bestseller. It was followed by: Forget Me Nat, Absolutely Nat, Definitely Nat, Nat for Nothing, and All is Nat Lost. and Nat a Chance. Maria’s comic, Half Full, is syndicated by Andrews McMeel and available on GoComics.com/half-full, and was published daily in newspapers nationwide including the LA Times for ten years. Her cartoons have appeared in many publications including MAD Magazine, Highlights, American Bystander, Prospect Magazine, Parade Magazine, and Wired, and on hundreds of greeting cards.
“I had so much fun researching and learning about Flash Gordon and all of the characters, and had the best time working with the creative team at Papercutz. It was an honor and a blast to be part of this project!”
John Patrick Green
John Patrick Green is the writer and artist of the InvestiGators middle-grade graphic novel series, as well as the early reader graphic novels Hippopotamister and the Kitten Construction Company duology. He co-writes the InvestiGators spin-off, Agents of S.U.I.T., with writer Christopher Hastings and artist Pat Lewis. John is also the co-creator and illustrator of the Teen Boat! series with writer Dave Roman.
John grew up reading comic strips and comic books, and loves to draw cartoon animals. As a human whose job is to write about animals who have human jobs, he especially enjoys writing puns and anything silly.
When he’s not writing and drawing, John loves to bake sourdough bread, make pizza, stare at the boxes of LEGO sets he still hasn’t gotten around to building, and play video games.
Born and raised on Long Island, New York, John attended the School of Visual Arts and now lives and works in Brooklyn.
“I’ve been a fan of Art and Franco for years, and always love their takes on iconic characters. It was a joy to contribute to their interpretation of Flash Gordon!”
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