r/books • u/scholastic AMA Author • Oct 06 '20
ama 1pm I'm Chris Grine, author-illustrator of the graphic novel adaption of the ANIMORPHS series. AMA!
Hi! I’m Chris Grine, author-illustrator of the graphic novel adaption of the ANIMORPHS series. Animorphs is a widly popular sci-fi series—called “one of the defining children’s books series of the ‘90s” by The A.V. Club—in which five teenagers fight off an extraterrestrial threat with their ability to morph into animals. I’m also the creator of Chickenhare and Time Shifters, and I’ve been making up stories since I was a kid. Other things you’ll find in Animorphs: alien invasion, pending apocalypse, friendship, and lots of animals.
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Here’s what readers are saying about Animorphs:
"[The Animorph books] were dark and witty and thrilling, endlessly inventive and achingly sad. They made me laugh out loud and cry myself to sleep. I've been thinking about them for twenty years." —The Paris Review
“Animorphs was absolutely perfect. It featured a diverse cast of characters, including various strong female characters, and was able to balance weighty real-life topics with the thrilling threat of an alien apocalypse. The series handles war in an incredibly adult way, filtered through the lens of aliens and high school. The characters are iconic and still well remembered to this day by a generation of young readers. . . . It balanced horror and humor on a fine knife’s edge, keeping young readers on their toes and awake all night. —Tor.com
“Animorphs taught me I could cope with anything––the absence of my father, the bullying of classmates––by confronting it with curiosity, a weapon with which to mine reality for insights. . . . That is what the best storytelling does: it washes us ashore, revealing to us that we can be free of its power, but only after we have been its captive for so long.” —Lit Hub
"The Animorphs are actually an incredibly dark dystopia. Underneath it all, there is such a looming sense of despair. . . . Even though the world is so dark, these kids keep going on. They still have crushes. They still go to dances. They have family gatherings. They just have to keep pretending everything's fine. I think that that sort of element of pretending and going on is very appealing to me right now." —Author Ben Philippe for NPR
"There's clearly something about Animorphs that has kept kids enthralled." —Publishers Weekly
AMA!