Description: The debut of a laugh-out-loud illustrated middle-grade adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephan Pastis (Timmy Failure, Pearls Before Swine) and award-winning cartoonist Will Henry (Wallace the Brave).
Porter Avery is just your average boy from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with your average boy problems: he's got a math test he definitely should be studying for (he isn't), and a dad who's making him go to bed (he doesn't want to). But when a magical malfunction takes Porter from his very everyday attic into the very not-everyday realm of Eternia, he'll find that problems with homework and helicopter parents pale in comparison to, say, an epic battle between He-Man and Skeletor that may or may not determine the future of the entire planet ! Will the heroes of Eternia rally around their earthside visitor, or will Porter get turned into mincemeat for Skeletor's pet Panthor sooner than he can say "By the Power of Grayskull?" Find out what happens when boy meets fantastical world in this first installment of the new series: The Adventures of He-Man and Porter.Brief description: Stephan Pastis took an unusual route to becoming a number-one best-selling comics creator: he went to law school. It's not that he didn't want to become a cartoonist - as a child growing up in the Los Angeles suburb of San Marino, he spent many happy hours off by himself drawing. He was routinely called on to create cartoons for his school newspapers. But by the time he graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in political science, Pastis - a completely self-taught artist - felt it unlikely that his cartoons would ever be syndicated.
So he found himself sitting in class at UCLA Law School, hopelessly bored, sketching the character Rat (who would later become a mainstay of all his future comic strips). Creative inspiration followed him through graduation in 1993 to his first law firm job in San Francisco, where by 1996 he finally started submitting his comics to syndicates. Persisting through an initial spate of rejections, Stephan Pastis created his signature strip Pearls Before Swine, chronicling his worldview through the misadventures of arrogant Rat, dumb-but-sweet Pig, philosophical Goat, along with a brood of other anthropomorphized animals and many, many puns. The strip was eventually syndicated in 1999 and can now be read in over 800 newspapers, dozens of book collections, and on GoComics.com. Several of the collections have appeared on The New York Times Best Sellers list. In 2013, inspired to break out of the box of a daily comic strip, Pastis took on the new challenge of becoming a children's author, penning the first book in a projected middle grade series called Timmy Failure, about an inept kid detective and his sidekick polar bear. Fail it did not; receiving stellar reviews and becoming an instant New York Times and National Indie bestseller. Now published in nearly 40 languages worldwide, Pastis' defective detective has become a breakout children's book character.Review Quotes: "I really love this book. It's hilarious, charming. It's an easy read if you are trying to detach from your phone's doom-scroll or you want something fun and thoughtful for the kids in your life to read. This will for sure be a holiday gift for people in my world and one of those 'must reads' whenever I have the chance to bring it up."--