Meet the author

Gavin Aung Than.

Writer & illustrator · Australia

Gavin Aung Than: New York Times bestselling Australian cartoonist behind Zen Pencils and Super Sidekicks, whose Creature Clinic is a warm, action-packed fantasy for ages 7 to 11.

Gavin Aung Than is an Australian cartoonist whose middle-grade graphic novel Creature Clinic imagines the world's finest hospital for mythical beings, where trainee doctor Kara Orc breaks every rule to treat an injured human boy, the one patient the clinic fears most. Action-packed and warm-hearted, it wraps a quietly powerful message about kindness, courage and treating others fairly inside a fantasy bursting with trolls, giants and unicorns, for readers aged 7 to 11. Than first found a wide audience with his online comic Zen Pencils, adapting inspirational quotes into cartoon stories, before creating the popular Super Sidekicks series. A New York Times bestselling creator, he pairs big-hearted storytelling with bright, confident cartooning built to pull in comic-mad young readers.