Winnie-the-Pooh by Travis Dandro is a D+Q Work in Progress, to be published Fall 2023. Dandro, author of the Lynd Ward Prize-winning King of King Court, and the 2022 release Hummingbird Heart, creates a graphic novel adaptation of the the classic children’s book by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard originally published in 1926.
“It’s amazing to see Travis make a turn from his hilarious and heart-rending autobiographical series of graphic novels to one of the most sublime children’s classics. Seeing a cartoonist of this kind of skill reinterpreting great literature is rare and thrilling.”—Executive Editor Tom Devlin
The Guardian called Travis’ King of King Court, “a powerful debut, skilfully drawn, cleverly told and as raw as a wasp sting.” And the Times Literary Supplement remarked that “as an illustrator, Dandro has a gift for the cinematic.”
Travis Dandro was born in Leicester, Massachusetts. He started publishing his first comic strip, Twerp, in the local weekly newspaper when he was 13 years old. In 1996 Travis graduated from Montserrat College of Art with a degree in fine art. Since then, his comics have appeared in dozens of college newspapers in the United States and Canada, and his first graphic novel, King of King Court, won the Lynd Ward Prize for graphic novel of the year. He currently lives in Belfast, Maine, with his sons.
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