Bad for You by Kevin C Pyle

Bad for You by Kevin C Pyle

SHOULD U.S. COMICS BE BANNED?

"SATANIC" HARRY POTTER BOOKS BURNT

PLAYGROUNDS POSE THREAT TO CHILDREN

TEXT-MAD YOUTH LOSING WRITING ABILITIES

CHILD SUSPENDED FOR BRANDISHING CHICKEN

SOCIAL WEBSITES HARM CHILDREN'S BRAINS

STUDENT ARRESTED FOR "PASSING GAS" AT SCHOOL

These are all real headlines screaming about the terrible stuff that's out there . . . stuff that's supposed to be BAD FOR YOU. But, honestly--is it?!

Bad for You asks this question and many more--and not just about the things that modern parents fear like violent video games, social media, and dirty hands. Stuff in this book goes back centuries--all the way to Plato (yeah, that one) and his worries over the new "technology" of his time: the written word! Kevin C. Pyle and Scott Cunningham cleverly expose the long-standing CAMPAIGN AGAINST FUN for what it really is: a bunch of anxious adults grasping at straws, ignoring scientific data, and blindly yearning for the good old days that never were. Bad for You presents the facts, figures, and a whole lot more--in eye-grabbing graphics--to debunk these myths and give kids the power to prove there's nothing wrong with having fun . . . or with being young.

Pyle is the author/illustrator of social justice-themed graphic novels and non-fiction docu-comics. He co-founded and published the purposefully obscure and unwieldy comic compendium Hodags and Hodaddies in the early 1990s. Kevin began contributing to and co-editing World War 3 Illustrated, America's longest-running radical comics anthology, shortly after that. Much of his work for WW3 Illustrated was collected in Lab U.S.A.: Illuminated Documents, a docu-comic published in 2001. Lab U.S.A. is a nonfiction comedy study of secret racist and authoritarian science.

The Society of Illustrators awarded him the Silver Medal for Sequential Art. Kevin has created performance and installation works based on the text that have been shown at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Mass MOCA, and a variety of other venues. Blindspot, his first graphic novel, was released by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers in 2007. It was published in Lynda Barry's Best American Comics 2008 anthology.

Katman was published in 2009 by Henry Holt and was selected a YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) Outstanding Graphic Novel for 2010. Take What You Can Carry, his third graphic novel, was released in March 2012, and he is currently working on a non-fiction docu-comic called Bad for You with Scott Cunningham, which is about the history of kid-centric moral panics in America.