Stephen McCranie is the writer and illustrator of the all-ages graphic novel series Space Boy and Mal and Chad. Stephen grew up drawing comics from an early age, and eventually earned a Fine Arts degree at the University of New Mexico. His stated goal as an artist is to make ""Comics that Nourish.""
“One of the best pieces of sequential art to come out in this or any other format in the past decade.”—Entertainment Monthly ""The story excels at mixing these complicated emotions together without getting overly sappy or too stuck in Amy's own mind and this makes it truly one of the most thoughtful examples I've ever seen of a teenaged girl in fiction.""—Narrative Investigations