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Stephen Shaskan.

Writer & illustrator · United States

Stephen Shaskan: American author-illustrator of Pizza and Taco — short, bright, friendship-focused early graphic novels for ages 5–8 with Elephant & Piggie energy in comic form.

Stephen Shaskan is an American author-illustrator best known for the Pizza and Taco graphic-novel-for-early-readers series, short, brightly-coloured friendship comics about two anthropomorphic food friends arguing about who's the best, planning birthday parties, having sleepovers and so on. The series is pitched at the earliest end of graphic-novel reading (ages 5–8), with very accessible panels, plenty of jokes and a steady emotional core of friendship maintenance. Shaskan also writes and illustrates picture books and lives in Minneapolis. A core early-graphic-novel author for emerging readers who like Elephant & Piggie energy in comic form.