Meet the author

Rob Kutner.

Writer · United States

A US late-night comedy writer turned children's author whose Snot Goblins anthology delivers gleefully gross horror-comedy with a warm heart, ideal for reluctant readers.

Rob Kutner is an American comedy writer who turned to books for children after a long career in late-night television, having written for The Daily Show and Conan O'Brien's programmes. That gag-writer's instinct for pace and the perfect grotesque punchline runs right through Snot Goblins and Other Tasteless Tales (2023), his middle-grade graphic anthology of five gross-out horror-comedy stories illustrated in gleefully revolting style by cartoonist David DeGrand. Booger demons, a soft-hearted vampire who refuses to kill anyone and a 2,000-year-old stepmummy pile on the disgusting gags, but Kutner smuggles in real warmth about family, difference and belonging underneath the slime. A natural fit for reluctant readers who love their comics equal parts funny, scary and revolting.