Far Side of the Moon

Alex Irvine (Portland, ME) has written more than thirty books, both original fiction and licensed work for Marvel, Hasbro, Warner Brothers, Fox, Blizzard, Legendary, and other international entertainment companies. He has also written comics (Daredevil Noir, Iron Man: Rapture, Hellstorm, Son of Satan: Equinox), games, and animation. The three games he’s currently writing—Marvel Avengers Alliance, Marvel War of Heroes, and Marvel PuzzleQuest—have together reached more than 75 million players. Ben Bishop (Portland,ME) is a comic creator who wrote, illustrated,and self-published his first book, the graphic novel Nathan the Caveman,in 2008. In 2011 he provided the illustrations for the award-winning book The Lost Trail, a graphic novel retelling of the famous Donn Fendler story Lost on a Mountain in Maine. Most recently Ben illustrated a short story for Archaia’s The Reason for Dragons and provided cover artwork for IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.

"While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin arehousehold names, “the only thing most people know about Michael Collins is thathe didn’t get to walk on the moon.” Irvine and Bishop aim to remedy that withthis graphic biography, which traces Collins’s upbringing and NASA careerthrough his selection for the Apollo 11 mission and his life afterward.Bishop works in a rough, schematic style, and his liberal use of swaths ofblack, accented with violet, makes the vastness of space felt in nearly everypanel."