Meet the author

John Patrick Green.

Writer & illustrator · United States

John Patrick Green: creator of the InvestiGators graphic-novel series — fast, pun-saturated alligator-detective comedy with strong reluctant-reader pull for ages 6–10.

John Patrick Green is an American author-illustrator best known for the InvestiGators graphic-novel series, a fast, pun-heavy detective comedy starring two alligator agents of S.U.I.T. He also writes and draws the Kitten Construction Company picture books and the Hippopotister graphic novels. Green's style is clean-lined, cartoon-bright and gag-paced, with a strong vocabulary of visual jokes and groan-out-loud wordplay that lands well on read-aloud and gives confident young readers a steady comic engine to chew through. Strong reluctant-reader appeal for ages 6–10, particularly children who already love Dav Pilkey or Aaron Blabey. InvestiGators has been a New York Times bestseller across the run.