Reading group guide for Galactic Hot Dogs: The Wiener Strikes Back!

Hey everyone! This post is especially for you educator, librarian, and parental types. The book people at Simon & Schuster created a super coolio reading group guide for my book!

It's got pre-reading questions, discussion questions, and even extension activities. The activities are awesome and get readers to do fun stuff like make their own comic strips and invent their own wicked fun games like my own Smash Hammer Derby Blast! Check out the guide here.

There's also a guide for my first book: Galactic Hot Dogs: Cosmoe's Wiener Getaway. You can get that here.

Why not read BOTH books with your middle-grade book club or kiddos? You'll have a blast! Get your books here!

Later dudes,
Cosmoe

Wahoo! The Wiener Strikes Back is now available everywhere!

It's here! It's my book birthday! HOT DOG!

Right this very minute, you can now buy Galactic Hot Dogs: The Wiener Strikes Back online and at bookstores everywhere! Check out the super sweet cover:

And the initial reviews are pretty fantastic! Yesterday I posted the Booklist review, and now here's one from Kirkus Reviews:

Brallier and Maguire bring their webcomic (now with a home full of games and activities and videos at Funbrain.com and Poptropica.com) back for a second venturesome print volume with collaborator Kelley. Jagged comic panes and captioned illustrations, some full-page, propel the story and add to the laffs ... will satisfy the appetites of fans of the first.

I think this calls for cake, don't you?

Happy book birthday to all my friends involved with Galactic Hot Dogs: The Wiener Strikes Back!!!

More to come,

Cosmoe

Booklist digs The Wiener Strikes Back!

Sneak peek of art from The Wiener Strikes Back!

Holy schmoley, you guys! Tomorrow's the day my new book Galactic Hot Dogs: The Wiener Strikes Back is available everywhere!

The first reviews are coming in and so far, so awesome. Booklist says:

The crew of the interstellar hot dog stand Neon Wiener return, ready to foil another one of evil Queen Dagger’s dastardly schemes. This epic, heavily illustrated follow-up to Cosmoe’s Wiener Getaway (2015) has just as many heroic feats, narrow squeaks, mighty explosions, monster fights, and crude jokes as the first adventure. Dashingly coiffured Earth boy Cosmoe, his two alien sidekicks, and Princess Dagger, the semi-evil daughter of the aforementioned queen, literally hitch their wagon to a traveling circus that turns out to be capturing aliens to create an army of mind-controlled monsters. Time to, as Cosmoe puts it, “STOP THE BAD DUDES AND SAVE THE DAY!” Readers of the Galactic Hot Dogs webcomic, from which the series is spun, will know they are in for quite a romp.

That's a pretty great review, but my biggest takeaway from it? I am DASHINGLY COIFFURED.

Yes. Yes, I am. And I'm not going to let Princess Dagger forget it.

See you here on my book birthday,
Cosmoe

Announcing Galactic Hot Dogs BOOK 2: The Wiener Strikes Back!

Hey everyone! Cosmoe here. I can't believe it, but the next book in my Galactic Hot Dogs series is coming out soon. Like really soon. LIKE NEXT WEEK!!!

On Tuesday, May 3, you can find Galactic Hot Dogs: The Wiener Strikes Back in bookstores and online! Plus my first book, Cosmoe's Wiener Getaway, is being re-released with an awesomesauce new cover. Check it out:

Here's the official-type description that the book people wrote for Book 2:

Cosmoe, Princess Dagger, Humphree, and the gang are back for another wild space adventure in the second hilarious illustrated novel of the Galactic Hot Dogs series, which Lincoln Peirce calls an “an insanely entertaining, eye-popping adventure!” 

What could go better with wieners than a flying space circus? Nothing! Which is why Humphree’s all jazzed up at the chance to sell Galactic Hot Dogs as the official food of Crostini’s Cosmic Carnival and Wonder Circus train. Cosmoe’s not entirely convinced—but once his skills as a monster tamer are unveiled, the deal is done and the Neon Wiener is officially hooked onto the train. 

Only things aren’t quite what they seem at this circus, and pretty soon Cosmoe realizes he and his buddies are in more danger than ever. To get to the bottom of it all, they have to travel somewhere pretty familiar, providing a glimpse at last into Cosmoe’s past and how he ended up aboard the Wiener in the first place.

I know I'm totally biased and all that, but I think The Wiener Strikes Back is WAY cool. I mean, my adventures are always super entertaining and sometimes pretty heart-pounding, so that makes for some pretty sweet reading, right? Right!

If you want to pre-order the book, go ahead and click on the book cover in the sidebar over there on the right. Go ahead. Do it. You know you want to!

Next week I'll be bringing you some rad behind-the-scenes art for you from my new book, so stay tuned! Oh, and Princess Dagger wants me to tell you that she'll be guest posting, so get psyched. And Humphree wants me to tell you his new hot-hot-HOT sauce melted off part of his tongue. But that's okay because he's a Bronkle and his tongue will grow back.

So there you go. GHD updates from the crew. We're baaaaaack!

Later gators,

Cosmoe

Lost art from book 2!

Hey everyone! The awesome illustrators of my books just put together a whole ton of lost Galactic Hot Dogs art for me, so of course I'm sharing some of it with all of you!

Check this out. It's a drawing from Galactic Hot Dogs: Book 2, chapter four.

I totally don't remember this happening. Probably because I got clobbered on the head? Just a wild guess!

More art to come!

Stay rad,
Cosmoe

Best. Gift. Ever.

Hey everyone! Happy holidays! Do you celebrate any December holidays? The GHD crew is exchanging gifts this week, and I got a super cool gift the other day! Humphree and Princess Dagger made it for me -- check it out:

Is that the coolest or WHAT?! It makes my hot cocoa extra delicioso!

Now I'm itching to see what's in that silver box underneath my new mug, but Dags says I have to wait until Friday. SMUDGE!

Have a great week and happy holidays!
Cosmoe and the crew

Check out this way-cool Galactic Hot Dogs Island art!

Hey everyone!

Today I've got something special for you: Radically awesome artwork from the design of Poptropica's Galactic Hot Dogs Island! If you don't know the amazingness that is Poptropica, well, you're missing out. Read these posts to get the dealio and I bet you'll want to play Poptropica right NOW!

I mean, how cool is this stuff, right?!

You can see it all in action when you play GHD Island for free online or on Poptropica's free app! Humphree, Dags, and I all love playing it, and I bet you will, too.

Have a great weekend!
Cosmoe and the crew