Pizza and Taco: Draw Your Own Comic!

Ages 5 to 8, Grades K to 3

Learn to make the BEST COMIC EVER with Pizza and Taco! Your favorite foodie besties have the BEST TIPS and most fun ACTIVITIES to help you become a super-awesome comic book ARTIST! DRAW right in this book that has panels, puzzles, mazes, quizzes, and STICKERS!

If you LOVE comic books and graphic novels, chances are you like to draw them, too...just like Stephen Shaskan! He has been teaching kids how to draw comics for over a decade. For the first time, his foodie buddies Pizza and Taco will show YOU all the elements of comics in their typical hilarious way, while also offering up activities, games, tutorials, and encouragement for readers to draw their own Pizza and Taco story. Parents will appreciate the literacy gains as kids learn about character, setting, and storytelling along with all the interactive activities and drawing fun!

Readers will be hungry to collect all eight books in the hilarious Pizza and Taco series! Here are just some of the titles to look out for:

Super-Awesome Comic!

Too Cool for School (A Parents Magazine Best Book!)

Dare to be Scared!

Wrestling Mania!

Series Overview: Series list: #1: Who's the Best?; #2: Best Party Ever!; #3: Super-Awesome Comic!; #4: Too Cool For School; Pizza and Taco To Go: 3-Book Boxed Set; #5: Rock Out!; #6: Dare to Be Scared!; Pizza y Taco: ¿Quien es el Mejor? (Spanish edition of WHO'S THE BEST?); Pizza and Taco Lunch Special: 6-book Boxed Set; #7: Wrestling Mania!; #8: Best Christmas Ever! (F'24); #9: Coolest Club Ever! (Spr '25); Pizza and Taco: Draw Your Own Comic (Sum '25); #10: TITLE TBD! (Spr '26)

About the Author

STEPHEN SHASKAN has always loved comics—reading them and making them! He grew up reading Marvel, DC, Harvey Comics, and Mad magazine and created his first comic, Super Grandpa, when he was in elementary school. He now creates the graphic chapter book series Pizza and Taco and is super excited to be sharing all he’s learned in this special activity book. Stephen lives with his wife and frequent collaborator, Trisha Speed Shaskan in Minneapolis. Visit him at online and follow him on social media to see more Pizza and Taco content.

Author Residence: Minneapolis, Minnesota