Johnny Boo Is King

Johnny Boo #9

by James Kochalka

The beloved young-reader series by Eisner Award winner James Kochalka returns with a new adventure fit for a king!

Johnny Boo is wearing a crown on his head, so that means he's the king! Squiggle wants to be king too, so he puts a rock on his head. After a brief argument, they decide to share their new flying castle, and fly to the moon. Or are they just pretending? After a madcap encounter with the Ice Cream Monster, they finally get too sleepy to stay awake... making this silly story excellent for bedtime.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Childrens, Comics

40 pages, Hardcover

First published March 12, 2019

About the author

James Kochalka is an American comic book artist and writer, and rock musician. His comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal. Largely autobiographical, Kochalka's cartoon expression of the world around him includes such real-life characters as his wife, children, cat, friends and colleagues, but always filtered through his own observations and flights of whimsy. In March 2011 he will be declared the cartoonist laureate of Vermont, serving a term of two years.

Reviews

[Dave Schaafsma]

It is always an event in this house when a James Kochalka book comes out, as he helps us channel our super silly and potentially annoying 4 year old selves. In this one that just makes a kind of shambles of the legend of King Arthur (no dissertations will be written on this one, trust me), Johnny Boo is King (which you knew from the title already, I know), and a bush is his castle, because that's what a kid would say. So Squiggle puts a rock on his head for his crown, chooses a tree for his (way better) castle, and decrees the only word that can be pronounced is "Fawuzzle."

Ice Cream Monster joins in the Knights of the Round Table action and his "castle" (??) actually involves sitting on an ice cream cone instead of a throne. Sword fights commence with cones as swords, Boo's he christens Excaliboo.

Too silly? Exactly.

[Christoph Meyer]

Fawuzzle.

Fawuzzle fawuzzle fawuzzle. Fawuzzle, fawuzzle fawuzzle fawuzzle. Fawuzzle fawuzzle fawuzzle fawuzzle fawuzzle fawuzzle fawuzzle fawuzzle fawuzzle fawuzzle fawuzzle. Fawuzzle fawuzzle fawuzzle fawuzzle?

Fawuzzle, fawuzzle fawuzzle, "Fawuzzle fawuzzle-fawuzzle fawuzzle fawuzzle."

Fawuzzle!

[raccoon reader]

I would call this High Silliness. The kiddo and I both loved its absurdness.

[Paula Greenfield]

Another fun book.

[Gabs]

Great book

[Jipi Perreault]

"Finally! I found an ice cream castle to si in... with my BUTT!!!"

[Francis S. Poesy]

Reading Johnny Boo books is always a treat. Fun and easy and goofy to the maximum. I'm assuming kids love them and re-read them over and over again. I know I do.