Jay Cooper

Award-winning, bestselling illustrator and author, JAY COOPER is the illustrator of over 30 books, including the New York Times and USA TODAY best-selling graphic novel series The Last Comics On Earth and national best-seller Your Guide To Not Getting Murdered In A Quaint English Village. Jay takes silly books very seriously—he believes that reading for pure enjoyment leads to a lifetime of literacy. Jay is also a Clio award-winning creative director of theatrical advertising, and has crafted art and advertising for more than 150 Broadway shows. Born and raised in Delaware, Jay now resides with his wife and children and a dog named Bradley Cooper Cooper in Maplewood, New Jersey.

Photo credit: Guzman

Visit Jay online at:
website | jaycooperbooks.com
instagram | www.instagram.com/jaycooperbooks

For more information, please contact Teresa Kietlinski at teresa(a)bookmarkliterary.com.

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Jay’s Bookshelf:

Super Atomic Wombat Girl
Book #1 Brave, Loyal, True
by Russel Ginns | S&S Aladdin | 2027
illus. by Jay Cooper

You Are The Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder
written by Maureen Johnson | Ten Speed Press | 2026
illustrated by Jay Cooper
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• a Junior Library Guild selection
• An ABA Indiebound Bestseller
•A USA Today Bestseller
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Foreign Editions:
UK | Harvill Secker
Italian | Giunti
Dutch | Van Goor

The Last Comics on Earth
The Last Comics on Earth: Too Many Villains!
The Last Comics on Earth: A Song of Swords and Stuffies
The Last Comics on Earth: Across the Doodleverse
by Max Brailler and Joshua Pruet
illustrated by Jay Cooper and Doug Holgate
Penguin Random House, Viking | 2023-present
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• a New York Times bestseller
• a Scholastic Book Club selection (Last Comics on Earth #1)
Foreign Editions:
UK | HarperCollins, Farshore

Styx and Scones in the Sticky Wand, Ready-to-Read
Styx and Scones in the Cracked Crystal, Ready-to-Read
by Jay Cooper
Simon Spotlight | 2023
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Awards for Styx and Scones in the Sticky Wand:
• A Delaware’s 2023 Kids Book for the National Book Festival, Library of Congress, Washington DC
• A 2024-2025 Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL) Awards for the Denny O’Neil Graphic Novel List

Your Guide To Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village
written by Maureen Johnson | Ten Speed Press | 2021
illus. by Jay Cooper
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• A USA Today Bestseller
• A New York Times Bestseller
• An ABA Indie Bestseller
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Foreign Editions:
French | Editions 10/18
Serbia | Veseli cetvrtak doo
UK | Bloomsbury Publishing

The Last Kids on Earth: Thrilling Tales from the Tree House
written by Max Brallier
illustrated by Douglas Holgate, Jay Cooper, Anoosha Syed, Lorena Alvarez, Christopher Mitten, Xavier Bonet | Viking Children’s Books | April 2021
The first ever graphic novel in the New York Times bestselling The Last Kids on Earth series–now with over 5 million copies in print!
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• A #1 New York Times Bestseller
• A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
• A USA Today Bestseller

THE BOTS book series 1-12
Book #1: The Most Annoying Robots in the Universe
Book #2: The Good, The Bad, and the Cowbots
Book #3: 20,000 Bots Under the Sea
Book #4: The Dragon Bots
The Bots Collection: An Out-of-this-World 4-book boxed set
Book #5: A Tale of Two Classrooms
Book #6: The Secret Space Station
Book #7: Adventures of the Super Zeroes
Book #8: The Lost Camera
Book #9: Tinny’s Tiny Secret
Book #10: The Wizard of Bots
Book #11: Attack of the ZomBats
Book #12: Danger on the Botsburg Express
by Russ Bolts
illustrated by Jay Cooper
Little Simon | 2019-2021

The Pepper Party Picks the Perfect Pet
The Pepper Party Family Feud Face Off
The Pepper Party It’s Completely Cursed
The Pepper Party Double-Dare Disguise
by Jay Cooper
Scholastic | 2019-and beyond