Eric Wight (photo by Heather Wight and used via Creative Commons)
Eric Wight, author and illustrator, will visit Delaware, Ohio’s Fundamentals on Thursday, March 11, from 4:30 – 6 p.m.
Wight is the author/illustrator of FRANKIE PICKLE AND THE CLOSET OF DOOM, and FRANKIE PICKLE AND THE PINE RUN 3000, the first titles in a new chapter book series published by Simon and Schuster. “They are fast paced and funny – a graphic novel/early chapter book hybrid,” said Tami Furlong, owner of Fundamentals. “New readers – especially boys – will love them!”
Wight is the author of the manga, My Dead Girlfriend. He illustrated the comic book adaptation of Michael Chabon‘s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. He was the recipient of the 2004 Russ Manning Award.
He is perhaps best known as the ‘ghost artist’ for television character, Seth Cohen on the former Fox TV series The OC and is the creator of ‘Atomic County’. For the HBO TV show Six Feet Under he created the fake vintage comic “Blue Twister”.
Wight was also an animator, working with Warner Bros. during the heyday of their animated output, working on such cartoons as Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, and others.
Photo by Michal Zacharzewski and used with permission
Fundamentals is located at 25 West Winter Street – just east of Franklin – in downtown Delaware, Ohio. Fundamentals is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.
Thanks for mentioning my visit! My name is actually WIGHT not WRIGHT.
Mr. Wight – I apologize! No excuse, but it is fixed. – Toby
Sorry I missed this! How did the event turn out?
Be sure to check out my new book also!