The Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City

By Brendan Leach

Book Overview

The award-winning Pterodactyl Hunters finds family drama in a 1904 New York where hot-air-balloonists defend their city from pterodactyls.

"Action (and angst) in the great pulp tradition, delivered with a sure hand and a dancing line. Keep your eye on this cartoonist!"--Mark Newgarden, author of We All Die Alone and Bow-Wow Bugs a Bug

Brendan Leach's Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City, a Best American Comics selection and winner of the Xeric Award and Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic, is a story of sibling rivalry and family tradition in a rapidly changing world: a version of a turn-of-the-century New York where generations of working-class hot air balloonists take to the skies each night to defend their city from pterodactyls.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 099627393X
• ISBN13: 9780996273930
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Secret Acres
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.0" x 11.7"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher