Zig and Wikki in The Cow by Nadja Spiegelman

She is the daughter of cartoonist Art Spiegelman (author of the graphic novel Maus) and Françoise Mouly (art editor of the New Yorker since 1993). In 2014 Spiegelman created the tumblr Curated Craigslist, which highlights remarkable furniture on craigslist.

As well as the contest, the tumblr also showcased images from the Mouly-Spiegelman archives, including old photographs and pages from Raw magazine and ran weekly artist spotlights. On the tumblr, the mother-daughter team hosted weekly themed 'New Yorker' cover-esque contests with prompts such as Mother's Day or the Trayvon Martin shooting.Īrtists submitted sketches, and 12 winners were posted every Friday along with editorial commentary by Mouly and Spiegelman.Īn image submitted through the website was published on the cover of the New Yorker in June 2012. In advance of the book's publication, in May 2012, Spiegelman and Mouly launched a Blown Covers tumblr which ran until October 2012. They also have lesson plans and other activities for kids and adults at the website. I also found a cool website called Professor Garfield where you can have Zig and Wikki and the other Toon Books read to you! Check out Professor Garfield too – HERE.She has written three graphic novels for children, Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework, Zig and Wikki in The Cow and 'Lost in New York City: A Subway Adventure' under the TOON Books imprint. I like their second adventure even better because of the humor and I enjoyed learning about the ecosystem and how to be eaten by a cow (just kidding about that last one)! You can find the Toon Books Website HERE, please check it out. I reviewed Zig and Wikki’s first adventure (Something Ate My Homework) you can read it HERE. It’s a reading program to try to get kids into reading! The books are divided into 3 reading levels (Zig and Wikki are a reading level three). This is a hilarious way to teach kids about cows and how they eat, the ecosystem, dung beetles and what they do in the ecosystem, what flies do in the ecosystem, and how to get eaten by a cow (not recommended)! I WILL recommend this book to kids 7+, though! The illustrations and comic-book format make a book most kids will like and/or love! This is part of the Toon Books Easy-To-Read Comics series. The Zig and Wikki books have a comic-book format (because they’re comic books) and every now and then a fact box (Wikki’s information screen) will pop up. They crash on Earth and Wikki lets the fly go without Zig’s permission. Zig sets out to find his fly but he and Wikki soon realize that their ship has been eaten by a cow and they need to get it back to get home! So, Zig convinces Wikki to come back to Earth to make the fly feel better in case it is homesick.

Zig and Wikki are back in an all new adventure! Zig’s pet fly (he brought a fly home from Earth on their last adventure) isn’t feeling really well.

Publisher: Toon Books (April 1, 2010) Zig and Wikki in The Cow – Our Review

Zig and Wikki in The Cow by Nadja Spiegelman