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Malcolm Kid and the Perfect Song

Austin Paramore author Sarah Bollinger illustrator Marika Cresta illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oni Press,US

Published:1st Aug '23

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Debut writer Austin Paramore and artist Sarah Bollinger (Girls Have a Blog) strike a chord in this humorous and heartfelt story about love, loss, legacy, and the music that ties them all together.

What does the perfect song sound like?

Normally, Malcolm Kid wouldn’t give this type of question the time of day. As a straight-B student with a heart of copper, he is far more concerned with overcoming mediocrity than he is with achieving perfection. But that all changes when he stumbles across the LK-2000—a strange keyboard cursed with the soul of an old jazz musician.

Malcolm soon learns that the only way to free this musician’s soul is by performing the perfect song. With much hesitation, and the help of his lifelong friend January Young, Malcolm embarks on a musical journey across the city of New Bronzeville in the hopes of discovering the perfect song and finding himself as a musician along the way.

Debut creators Austin Paramore and Sarah Bollinger strike a chord in this humorous and heartfelt story about love, loss, legacy, and the music that ties them all together.

"Paramore explores quintessential themes of grief and uncertainty in this warm and humorous tale." * Publishers Weekly *
"The first praise for Malcolm Kid and the Perfect Song is its humor, which can only be pulled off with such a great strength of characters, timing, layout, and comfortability with its subjects. [...] A strong story." -- Virginia Library Association

ISBN: 9781637152232

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm

Weight: 442g

208 pages