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McKechnie capably balances the characters’ humorous antics with steadily rising stakes while Estrada’s animated illustrations expertly utilize light and shadow to deepen the atmosphere of this promising series opener, a dual debut.
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Grace, Parent Review
About the Illustrator
Simón Estrada is an illustrator from Pasadena, California and currently lives in Hollywood. He earned his BA in Fine Arts from the University of California Santa Barbara and a BFA in Illustration with an emphasis on Entertainment Arts from the Art Center College of Design. He currently works for Disney TV Animation as a character designer and has been working in the animation industry since 2013. Monsterton is his debut graphic novel.
About the Composer
Evan Duffy is a Los Angeles based composer and music producer providing compelling original music scores for films, television, and video games. His film work includes Transformers One, M3GAN 2.0, Fast X, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the Now You See Me franchise, and Avengers: Age of Ultron, with television credits on Magnum P.I. and Hawaii Five-0. He also composed the score for Cirque du Soleil's 'AUANA, which debuted in Honolulu in December 2024 to critical acclaim, continuing a collaboration that began with Cirque's Mad Apple.
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