The Short Con

By Pete Toms

"True Detective meets Encyclopedia Brown but set in a girls' orphanage." --Rich Barrett, Mental Floss

A loving and hilarious pastiche of the detective genre. Legendary kid detective "Pops" Popowski prefers to work alone. But when she's saddled with a rookie partner named Mary Branwell, Pops won't stop until she discovers who offed Mary's parents, whether Branwell wants her to or not.

Pops and Branwell is now a CN Mini on Cartoon Network

Aleks Sennwald is a writer and storyboard artist for the hit TV show Adventure Time. Pete Toms is the Ignatz-nominated author of In Post. The Short Con is their first graphic novel.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681480085
• ISBN13: 9781681480084
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Floating World Comics
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 5.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7