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Dave Roman.

Writer & illustrator · United States

Dave Roman: American cartoonist behind Astronaut Academy, Teen Boat! and Unicorn Boy — bright, joke-paced middle-grade graphic novels for ages 8–12.

Dave Roman is an American cartoonist best known for the Astronaut Academy graphic-novel series, Teen Boat!, and the Unicorn Boy middle-grade graphic novel. Roman's style is bright, joke-paced and character-driven, in the contemporary middle-grade-graphic-novel tradition. He has also worked as an editor at Nickelodeon Magazine and First Second Books. A reliable contemporary middle-grade graphic-novel author-illustrator for ages 8–12, with appeal for fans of science-fiction-and-superhero adjacent comics.