Kirk Scroggs is this week’s guest on The Art Of Conversation Podcast.
On The Show
Kirk Scroggs talks with The Art Of Conversation Podcast host, Art Eddy about his book, Secret Spiral of Swamp Kid and what it meant to him for DC’s Jim Lee give a great review of his book. Kirk also talks with Art about when he knew he wanted to be an author and artist. Kirk also answers the Life of Dad Quick Five.
About Kirk Scroggs
Kirk is an author-illustrator best known for the Snoop Troop books, It Came From Beneath the Playground, and Attack of the Ninja Potato Clones, as well as the series Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet and Wiley & Grampa’s Creature Features.
Follow Kirk on Twitter at @KirkScroggs, pick up Secret Spiral of Swamp Kid wherever books are sold and go to his website at kirkscroggs.com.
About Secret Spiral of Swampy Kid
Warning! Unless you have express permission from young Russell Weinwright to access his personal journal, do not read any further. This blurb is strictly off-limits! Seriously, we mean it.
Okay, if you are still with us, here is what we can share: Russell is a middle schooler; he excessively doodles in his spiral notebook; he has two best friends, Charlotte and Preston; he is not-so-great at sports; and he is pond scum. Nicknamed “Swamp Kid” by his classmates, Russell has algae for hair, a tree trunk of a right arm, webbed toes, and a parsnip for a thumb. Also, Russell’s favorite meal is sunlight. Also, a frog lives in his arm.
In this notebook, Russell details, in both hilarious text and green-tinted illustrations (complete with ketchup stains!), what it’s like to be different, to be comfortable in his own skin (no matter how slimy), to discover his true talents, to avoid the intense stare of Mr. Finneca (his suspicious science teacher), and to find humor in the everyday weird.
This is The Secret Spiral of Swamp Kid by writer and illustrator Kirk Scroggs, and you’ll never look at the bayou the same way again.
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