Part of Series
Most kids are only allergic to things like pollen or peanuts, but not Zick—he's also allergic to monsters! Join Zick and his friend Elena as they explore the world of monsters in this thrilling first installment of the Monster Allergy adventure! Elena Potato just moved to Oldmill Village, but she’s about to find out that there’s a lot more going on in this quiet little town than meets the eye—Oldmill Village is actually an oasis for all kinds of monsters! Zick, Elena’s new neighbor, is a strange kid who’s allergic to just about everything, but he alone has the power to see the invisible ghosts and monsters that live among us. Together, Zick and Elena are out to investigate all the strange phenomena going on in Oldmill Village, including a recent uptick in missing pets, a dangerous man-eating plant, and a sinister salesman who could pose the ultimate threat to both humans and monsters alike!
Authors
Katja Centomo (Aosta, 23 gennaio 1971) è una scrittrice, fumettista e imprenditrice italiana che opera nel settore dei fumetti, cartoni animati e narrativa per ragazzi.. Dirige lo studio editoriale Red Whale dal 2002, anno in cui ha creato la serie Monster Allergy. Tra le sue creazioni si ricordano la serie Lys e Cooking Time. Einaudi Ragazzi ha pubblicato tre suoi romanzi: Tilly Duc e il segreto della casa dei tetti blu (2015), La strada per Pont Gun (2017), Franca Viola. La ragazza che disse no (2018).
Francesco Artibani (born 27 October 1968) is an Italian comics writer, most notably known for his work on Disney comics. Artibani originally studied animation. He debuted in comics in 1992, scripting an Uncle Scrooge story for the Italian weekly Disney comics magazine 'Topolino'. Besides writing stories for Topolino, since the 90's Artibani contributed to various innovative comic projects from Disney Italia, such as PKNA, MMMM and W.I.T.C.H. He is also the co-creator of the Monster Allergy comics series.
Born on the 19th January 1969 in Genoa. After reading Architecture at University she began working as commercial artist and as illustrator. In 1996 she started a collaboration with the Walt Disney Company: she took part to several creative projects as illustrator drawer and character designer. Together with Alessandro Barbucci in 1997 she gave life to the new magazine W.I.T.C.H. In fact they took part to the project’s editing they created the characters, the background, the graphic design and the color of a project that, since April 2001, has been having a huge success all over the world. Since 1997 they have been working on the science-fiction saga Sky Doll published in France by Soleil and in USA (Heavy Metal and Marvel), and in over 18 countries in all. Acclaimed by the public and the critics in the recent years it has been awarded many times as best series of the year best color and design throughout Europe. Eventually they are the graphic editors of the new series Monster Allergy a comics for kids published in 2003 by Soleil in France, in Germany by Egmont, and in 2004 in the rest of the world as a monthly magazine for the Walt Disney Company. Since January 2006 the series has been brought to TV as a cartoon produced by Rainbow Futurikom and Disney Channel. Purchased in 2005 by Warner Bros for the USA it is aired on Cartoon Network e M6. Currently Barbara Canepa is working on Sky Doll 4 on the gothic series End which will be realized in collaboration with an Italian Disney artist Anna Merli. End is part of a new Soleil’s collection: Metamorphose, which she directs. Lastly in 2007 she created a new publishing label: Venusdea. It’s a label independent of Soleil which starting in 2009 will feature international artists beyond the comics’ world. It will be edited all over the world in two languages and will contain brand new projects closer to the field of art than to comics. — View the Facebook fan page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Barbara...
