Thursday, August 15, 2013

Superhero ABC by Bob McLeod

Full page colorful illustrations and expressive super hero characters make this a book children will page through and study many times.  Very creative superheros!  All the main words that describe the superhero begin with the corresponding alphabet letter (even the words the bystanders or villains say!).
Fun to read and share.
Lends itself to creativity and making own superhero ABC book.
Update-June 2015
Mr. McLeod (pronounced "MacCloud) presented at our library.  He was fabulous!!  Over twenty children attended and they were very attentive.  He shared the process of making the book and also instructed the children step-by-step how to draw Charlie Brown/Snoopy and Spider man's face.  He also offered some drawing advice.
Some interesting information about the book and about him:
He penciled comics for over 40 years for DC and Marvel.  
It took him 8 months to create the book.
He drew and created it on the computer.  
He would write down words from the dictionary that began with each letter to come up with interesting names for his super heroes.  A lot of super hero names are already patented!  
He had to come up with different words for the "bad guy" to make it interesting.  Fun to go through and find all the different words he used (bullies, crooks, criminal, evildoers, felons etc).  
When he came up with Ms. Incredible, the movie The Incredibles was released!  He was able to keep the name since the female protagonist in the movie is called "Elasti-girl".  
For M, he drew one picture of Mike and then copied and pasted him.  
He owns a Pekipoo.
S took him a long time to create a super hero name-lots of words that begin with "s" so made it challenging.  
Originally Upside-Down Man was called Unusual Man.  Then once he switched to Upside Down Man, his cape dragged on the ground so in the finally copy, they removed his cape.  
He created Volcano who vomits as a joke for his editor.  He thought she would not agree to keep it since it was so revolting.  She, however, loved it and said it would be boys favorite page! (she is correct!) 

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