Meet the author

Mike Lowery.

Writer & illustrator · United States

Mike Lowery: American illustrator-author behind Mac B., Kid Spy (with Mac Barnett), Doodle Adventures and Everything Awesome About — sketchy, lettered, fact-stuffed comic-format books for ages 6–10.

Mike Lowery is an American illustrator and author best known to UK readers as the visual partner of Mac Barnett on the Mac B., Kid Spy chapter-book series, illustrated middle-grade spy comedies starring a fictionalised version of Mac himself. Lowery is also the author-illustrator of the Doodle Adventures interactive activity-and-story books, the Random Illustrated Facts non-fiction series, and the recent Everything Awesome About series for children. His style is loose, sketchy and immediately recognisable, black ink line work with thick, exuberant hand-lettering and lots of marginalia. A reliable signal of funny-bone, fact-stuffed, comic-format children's books for ages 6–10.