GEORGE O’CONNOR is The New York Times bestselling author of the Olympians series – graphic novels featuring the tragic, dramatic, and epic lives of the Greek Pantheon – and its counterpart series, Asgardians, featuring the Norse Gods. His first graphic novel, Journey into Mohawk Country (First Second), pushed the boundaries of the genre, using as its sole text the historical journal of the 17th-century Dutch trader Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert. O’Connor illustrated acclaimed playwright Adam Rapp’s Ball Peen Hammer (First Second), and collaborated with Daniel G. Newman on Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy (First Second), the first volume in the World Citizen Comics series. He is also the creator of popular picture books such as The New York Times bestselling Kapow! (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing) and If I Had a Triceratops (Candlewick). He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
