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Fanboy has never had it good, but lately his sophomore year is turning out to be its own special hell. The bullies have made him their favorite target, his best (and only) friend seems headed for the dark side (sports and popularity), and his pregnant mother and the step-fascist are eagerly awaiting the birth of the alien life form known as Fanboy’s new little brother or sister. Fanboy, though, has a secret: a graphic novel he’s been working on without telling anyone, a graphic novel that he is convinced will lead to publication, fame, and–most important of all–a way out of the crappy little town he lives in and away from all the people who make it hell for him. When Fanboy meets Kyra, a.k.a. Goth Girl, he finds an outrageous, cynical girl who shares his love of comics as well as his hatred for jocks and bullies. But Kyra has secrets, too. And they could lead Fanboy to his dreams . . . or down a path into his own darkness.
Fanboy has never had it good, but lately his sophomore year is turning out to be its own special hell. The bullies have made him their favorite target, his best (and only) friend seems headed for the dark side (sports and popularity), and his pregnant mother and the step-fascist are eagerly awaiting the birth of the alien life form known as Fanboy’s new little brother or sister. Fanboy, though, has a secret: a graphic novel he’s been working on without telling anyone, a graphic novel that he is convinced will lead to publication, fame, and–most important of all–a way out of the crappy little town he lives in and away from all the people who make it hell for him. When Fanboy meets Kyra, a.k.a. Goth Girl, he finds an outrageous, cynical girl who shares his love of comics as well as his hatred for jocks and bullies. But Kyra has secrets, too. And they could lead Fanboy to his dreams . . . or down a path into his own darkness.
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Barry Lyga is the author of The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. Raised on a steady diet of comics, he worked in the comic book industry for ten years but now writes full time. He lives near the Mason-Dixon Line with his wife and a comic book collection that is just way too big.
Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. His stage appearances throughout the US include Cyrano, Hamlet, and MacBeth. In the audio industry, Scott has won over 20 Earphones Awards, as well as the 2003 Audie Award in the Best Science Fiction category for Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. After recording nearly 250 books in five years, AudioFile Magazine named Scott “one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy” and proclaimed him one of their Golden Voices. Brick’s range is unparalleled as he reads thrillers to narrative nonfiction, from biographies to science fiction with aplomb.
Reviews-
Comic book readers will get all the inside jokes, asides, and allusions in this novel. Everyone else will love it, too. Lyga, a lifelong comic fan, put all his arcane knowledge to work in a story about a geeky high school student out to impress his hero, comic book writer Brian Bendis, with his own creation. He's aided (sometimes) by a quirky and borderline psychotic girl from school, nicknamed "Goth Girl" for her fashion tendencies. Scott Brick does his usual zealous performance but sounds too old for most of the parts. No matter how talented he may be, Brick can't sound like a 16-year-old comic geek. A younger reader would be more convincing. M.S. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
August 1, 2007 Gr 9 Up-Barry Lyga's first novel (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) about a smart, geeky, artistic 15-year-old boy comes to life in Scott Brick's performance. Fanboy lives life with a chip on his shoulder, almost content to feel bitter about his parents' divorce, his stepfather, his mother's current pregnancy, the fools at school who include both teachers and fellow students, and his general loneliness. But he also has a sense of humor and some perspective, so he's not entirely alienated from his peers; in fact, he has a friend, Cal, a star athlete, who also is very smart and shares Fanboy's affection for graphic novels. Then Fanboy meets Kyra, a goth girl with requisite attitudeand a body almost as alluring as Dina's, the school's senior heart throb. Brick provides fitting voices for both the teen and adult charactersincluding real life comics artist Brian Michael Bendisthat inculcate the audio with almost cinematic quality. Here's a prose novel that includes lots of descriptive detail about graphic novels, an essentially visual medium, rendered into an aural performance with huge success. Fanboy's embarrassments and eventual personal victories, Kyra's unmasking, and the credibility of their environments at home and at school are vivid and compelling, thanks to both Lyga and Brick."Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA"
Copyright 2007 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Comic book readers will get all the inside jokes, asides, and allusions in this novel. Everyone else will love it, too. Lyga, a lifelong comic fan, put all his arcane knowledge to work in a story about a geeky high school student out to impress his hero, comic book writer Brian Bendis, with his own creation. He's aided (sometimes) by a quirky and borderline psychotic girl from school, nicknamed "Goth Girl" for her fashion tendencies. Scott Brick does his usual zealous performance but sounds too old for most of the parts. No matter how talented he may be, Brick can't sound like a 16-year-old comic geek. A younger reader would be more convincing. M.S. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
