John Patrick Green

John Patrick Green

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John Green

Affiliations
First Second Books

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Gender
Male

John Patrick Green is the author and illustrator of InvestiGators.
John Patrick Green is a human with the human job of making books about animals with human jobs, such as *Hippopotamister*, *Kitten Construction Company*, and *InvestiGators*. John is definitely not just a bunch of animals wearing a human suit pretending to have a human job. He is also the artist and co-creator of the graphic novel series Teen Boat!, with writer Dave Roman. John lives in Brooklyn in an apartment that doesn't allow animals other than the ones living in his head.

Biography
When Green was really young he had bad asthma and couldn't go to school for a very long time, so he spent most of his time at home reading comics from the newspapers like Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbes or Garfield.
He used to draw Garfield a lot and once he was able to go to school in 3rd or 4th grade, he would give away pictures of Garfield to his schoolmates, and then after a while asking for a dollar if kids wanted drawings.
After some time he wasn't allowed to as a teacher had complained that students would use their lunch money to buy drawings.
John's mother then told him about copyright, saying he can't draw Garfield as it doesn't belong to him, rather to Jim Davis. And so this motivated Green to make his own comics.
His first comic was the Footsies, a group of boys and animals who had large feet and would get into minor inconveniences because of that abnormality. He would then photocopy and staple pages together into little booklets to sell to kids.

One day his older brother brought back some Spiderman comics and John noticed the similarities it had with Garfield, in which they both used panels to tell a story, and this led him to making the Footsies more adventure focused in 5th grade and parodied various media like X-Men and TMNT and he would continue making and selling these comics up until highschool.

He would go to study at School of Visual Arts in New York, NYC where he met Dave Roman and they quickly became good friends as they shared similar origins. While in college they made books together like Jax Epoch and Teen Boat.
After college, Roman would go to work for Nickelodeon and Green went to Disney, where he'd draw for Disney Adventures magazines for about 10 years, where the last thing he drew for Disney were Phineas and Ferb comics.
He'd later go on to work for First Second Books where he would make Hippopotamister and Kitten Construction Company. Afterwards his editor asked if he had more ideas for books and so John sat down to think about what stories he liked to make. He enjoyed writing and drawing books about animals wearing clothes with human jobs and so he settled on alligators wearing vests and solving crimes, thus the idea of InvestiGators.

Works
One-off books* Hippopotamister (2016)

(a second book is said to be in the works)

Quicken Forbidden
Written by Dave Roman, illustrated by John Patrick Green
* Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden: Borrowed Magic (2003)
* Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden: Separation Anxiety (2004)

Teen Boat!
Written by Dave Roman, illustrated by John Patrick Green
* Teen Boat! (2012)
* Teen Boat! The Race for Boatlantis (2015)

Kitten Construction Company* Kitten Construction Company: Meet the House Kittens (2018)
* Kitten Construction Company: A Bridge Too Fur (2019)

InvestiGators* InvestiGators (Volume 1) (2020)
* InvestiGators: Take the Plunge (2020)
* InvestiGators: Off the Hook (2021)
* InvestiGators: Ants in Our P.A.N.T.S. (2021)
* InvestiGators: Braver and Boulder (2022)
* InvestiGators: All Tide Up (2023)
* InvestiGators: Class Action (2024)
* InvestiGators: High-Rise Hijinks (2024)

Agents of S.U.I.T.
Written with Christopher Hastings, illustrated by Pat Lewis
* Agents of S.U.I.T. (Volume 1) (2023)
* Agents of S.U.I.T: From Badger to Worse (2024)

Awards* San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
* Eisner Award Nominee
* Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year
* Amazon.com Best Books of the Year

Social Media
Website: http://johngreenart.com/
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/johngreenart?lang=en
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johngreenart/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johngreenart
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