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About the Author
Cartoonist Chris Schweizer was born in Tuscon, AZ to parents who are both classical musicians. He is 29 years old, and lives on the outskirts of Atlanta with his wife Liz and his daughter Penelope. He received his BFA in Graphic Design from Murray State University in 2004, and his MFA in Sequential Art at the Atlanta branch of the Savannah College of Art and Design. His comics have been published by Oni Press, Top Shelf Productions, Image Comics, Evil Twin Comics, and Nickelodeon Magazine, among others.
Crogan's Vengeance, the first volume in his Crogan Adventures series, has received an Eisner Award nomination and a Young Adult Library Service Association (Yalsa) Award nomination, and was named the Dollar Bin's Graphic Novel of the Year for 2008. It also made the Texas Library Association's Maverick Reading List, 2010, and has been nominated for a 2009 CYBILS Award.
Crogan's March, the second book in the series, has been named one of Book Expo America's "Librarians' Hot Fall Graphic Novels."
In addition to his comic work, he teaches as a full professor of Sequential Art and Animation at SCAD-Atlanta.
Chris has, at various points, been a hotel manager, a movie theater projectionist, a guard at a mental institution, a martial arts instructor, a set builder, a process server, a window-painter, a church music leader, a life-drawing model, a bartender, a car wash atendant, a bagboy, a delivery boy, a choirboy, a lawn boy, a sixth-grade social studies teacher, a janitor, a speakeasy proprieter, a video store clerk, a puppeteer for a children's television show, a muralist, and a lineworker at a pancake mix factory.