Publisher: Scholastic/Graphix (June 25, 2019)
Age Range: 7-10 years / Grade Level: 2-5
144 pages full color
Paperback ISBN13: 978-1338186031
Hardcover ISBN13: 978-1338186048
Monster brothers Wolfie, Jackson, and Roy are in for some serious competition when the gigantic corporation, Happy Leaf, moves into their hometown of Oak Hollow and wants to buy their pizza parlor. But not all is on the up-and-up when they discover the villainous CEO, Lord Mudpant, wants to turn the townspeople into zombies. Can the boys set aside their squabbles long enough to thwart Mudpant's nefarious plans?!
Publisher’s Weekly: “Near-insane optimism and constant cheer evoke a bit of SpongeBob, and everything from the idiosyncratic characters (jubilant Wolfie has one eye and bird feathers) to servings of the ridiculous (one needs to put on a puppet show to make a pizza) offer the book the feel of a Saturday morning cartoon.”
Kirkus Review: “Like pizza, this David-and-Goliath crowd-pleaser is hot and fresh.”
School Library Journal: “This ridiculous and fun twist on a well-worn trope will charm the legions of readers who can't get enough "Captain Underpants," "Dog Man," and "Lunch Lady" books”
Publisher: Capstone (August 1, 2018)
Author: Matthew K. Manning
Age Range: 8-10 years / Grade Level: 3-5
128 pages
Paperback ISBN13: 978-1496557162
Hardcover ISBN13: 978-1496557124
The secret of the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns is out and that makes Xander Stone sick! Twelve-year-old Xander is the only person on Earth who knows about the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns. Except, of course, for a rich and crazy billionaire who will stop at nothing to capture these zombielike, upchucking creatures and get even richer and crazier!
Publisher: Capstone (August 1, 2018)
Author: Matthew K. Manning
Age Range: 8-10 / Grade Level: 3-5
128 pages
Paperback ISBN13: 978-1496557186
Hardcover ISBN13: 978-1496557148
Xander Stone travels to the home world of the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns and it smells surprisingly good! Once banished for being stinky, zombielike, upchucking creatures, the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns (still stinky, zombielike, upchucking creatures) return to their home world, Pegasia. Twelve-year-old Xander travels along, but Pegasia isn't the retched realm he expects. Instead, beautiful, brightly colored, tra-la-la-ing unicorns roam this fairy tale-ish world. Heck, even their farts smell strawberry-sweet! Which is a problem, since the Rainbow-Barfers just emptied their stomachs and are craving fruit-flavored unicorns!
Publisher: Capstone (August 1, 2018)
Author: Matthew K. Manning
Age Range: 8-10 / Grade Level: 3-5
128 pages
Paperback ISBN13: 978-1496557193
Hardcover ISBN13: 978-1496557155
Xander Stone didn't believe in unicorns -- until one puked on him! In this adventure, twelve-year-old Xander first meets the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns -- stinky, zombielike, upchucking creatures from the magical world of Pegasia. They've been banished to Earth for, well, being stinky, zombielike, upchucking creatures. However, Earth presents them with a great danger: HUMANS. Luckily, the dashing, naively heroic Xander vows to protect them and their disgusting secret at all costs.
Publisher: Capstone (August 1, 2018)
Author: Matthew K. Manning
Age Range: 8-10 / Grade Level: 3-5
128 pages
Paperback ISBN13: 978-1496557179
Hardcover ISBN13: 978-1496557131
Xander Stone must save the handsomest of all Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns! In this installment, the handsomest of all Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns, Stalor, is missing. (P.S. He's not really that handsome.) Twelve-year-old Xander and his other stinky, zombielike, upchucking unicorns set out to find him. Their naively heroic quest leads them to another dimension ruled by a diabolically bizarre king. Can the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns save their relatively handsome friend, or will the plan throw up in their faces?
Publisher: Capstone (January 1, 2019)
Author: Matthew K. Manning
Age Range: 8-10 / Grade Level: 3-5
128 pages
Paperback ISBN13: 978-1496580146
Hardcover ISBN13: 978-1496578273
Xander discovers a new magical creature - millions of them, actually! In this adventure, a swarm of insects threatens the Montgomery Orchard and twelve-year-old Xander's fruitful summer job. Luckily, the so-called bugs aren't actually bugs. Unluckily, they're miniature, unicorn-hating, insect fairies from the magical world of Pegasia! If Xander and his team of Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns can't rid the orchard of these no-good fairies, their secret will be blown quicker than a stomach-load of full-spectrum chunks. Plump-full of grotesquely delightful characters and fantastical realms, Xander and the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns, from writer Matthew K. Manning (Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures) is so epic it'll make you wanna puke.
Publisher: Capstone (January 1, 2019)
Author: Matthew K. Manning
Age Range: 8-10 / Grade Level: 3-5
128 pages
Paperback ISBN13: 978-1496580153
Hardcover ISBN13: 978-1496578280
The Rainbow-Barfing Unicorn virus hasn’t infected humans . . . until now! In this adventure, twelve-year-old Xander contracts the mysterious virus of the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns. The virus gives the unicorns their barfing abilities, but it’s having the opposite effect on Xander―it’s draining him of any color at all! Xander’s fate lies in the hands―er, hooves―of Ronk, the most dimwitted of all Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns. This is not good. In fact, this is bad―really, really bad. Plump-full of grotesquely delightful characters and fantastical realms, Xander and the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns―from writer Matthew K. Manning (Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures)―is so epic it’ll make you wanna puke
Leaky Timbers is an all-ages, 72-page graphic novel I self published through Kickstarter. Leaky Timbers stars Wolfie Monster, his brothers Roy and Jackson and the rest of the residents of the Leaky Timbers apartment complex.
For the Kickstarter project, I worked with Phil Hatter to design two puppets to appear in the video; one for Wolfie and one for Roy. You can see some of the examples of these videos on the original Kickstarter page as well as Youtube.
Since completion of the Leaky Timbers Kickstarter project, I've gone on to produce more merchandise including pins, t-shirts and other printed materials.
You can visit the official Leaky Timbers website and buy a book either here or from Amazon!
The final printed book
Roy, Wolfie and Jackson design
Example spread from book
Big brother / little brother
More examples of spreads from the book
Various character designs
Scene from various videos with Wolfie and Roy
Wolfie puppet design
Roy puppet design
Shirt designs
Shiny Wolfie pin
