The Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City - Hardcover

by Brendan Leach (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Brendan Leach is an Ignatz and Xeric Award winning Cartoonist and Illustrator. He is the author of the graphic novel Iron Bound, counted on Print magazine's best books of 2013. Leach's illustrations have appeared in print in the New York Times, Time Out New York, Time Out New York Kids, Best American Comics, and the L Magazine, and online at moleskine.com and xbox.com, and on ESPN's Sportscenter. His work has been recognized by 3×3 Magazine and the Society of Illustrators. He used to drive a Zamboni in New Jersey.