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  Finally, a tip of the hat to Boody Rogers, who told me stories years ago about working as a cartoonist in New York in the 1930s. They were always exciting and always funny and occasionally true, or at least true enough to make me wish I’d been born a few decades sooner.

  Sonia Browder

  Ron Bates is a novelist who writes about secret laboratories, bullies, evil robots, toilet monsters, super plumbers, cafeteria tacos, and all the other things that make being a middle-school student so interesting. A former newspaper reporter and humor columnist, he is the author of How to Make Friends and Monsters, How to Survive Middle School and Monster Bots, and The Unflushables. He also writes comic books, poems, and other stuff for kids who like to laugh. He lives in Texas.