Meanwhile (10th Anniversary Edition): Pick Any Path. 3,856 Story Possibilities
By (Author) Jason Shiga
Abrams
Abrams
1st March 2010
2nd March 2010
United States
Children
Fiction
741.5973
Winner of Cybils (Graphic Novel Elem/Mid) 2010
Hardback
80
Width 198mm, Height 236mm, Spine 16mm
470g
Follow the tabs to create your own story in award-winning author/illustrator Jason Shigas groundbreaking, bestselling choose your own adventuregraphic novel, Meanwhile: Pick Any Path. 3,856 Story Possibilities.
A boy stumbles upon the lab of a mad scientist who asks him to choose between testing a mind-reading device, a time machine, and a doomsday machine.
Using an ingenious system of tubes and tabs, readers can decide what to explore in this completely engrossing experiment in storytelling. Sometimes the page reads right to left, sometimes up and down, and sometimes jumps from beginning to end. Its sure to appeal to kidsand comics collectorseager for an interactive, funny read.
Crazy + Genius = Shiga. Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics
If humankind ever finds itself at the brink of its own destruction and I am given the task to fill a small, space-bound time capsule with a collection of ten graphic novels that would present to alien eyes the best that the cartoonists of Earth had to offer the universe, Jason Shigas Meanwhile would surely be among my picks. Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese
Jason Shiga is the author of more than 20 comic books and the inventor of three board games, two card tricks, the greedy mug, the bus clock, and the worlds second-largest interactive comic, which spanned 25 square feet. In 2003, he won the Eisner Award for talent deserving of wider recognition. He lives in Oakland, California.