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Mark Siegel.

Writer & illustrator · United States · b. 1967

Mark Siegel: American cartoonist behind 5 Worlds (co-written with brother Alexis), and founder of the First Second Books graphic-novel imprint — a core voice in contemporary children's graphic novels.

Mark Siegel is an American cartoonist born in 1967 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and best known to children's-book readers as the co-writer (with his brother Alexis Siegel) and creative lead of the 5 Worlds middle-grade graphic-novel series, a five-volume sci-fi epic illustrated by Xanthe Bouma, Matt Rockefeller and Boya Sun. Mark also founded First Second Books, one of the most important children's-graphic-novel imprints in US publishing, and wrote and illustrated Sailor Twain (adult, out of scope) and the picture book Moving House. A core voice in contemporary children's graphic novels, both as creator and as publisher-curator.