Marty Pants '1: Do Not Open!, Hardcover

"Funny and engaging. Marty Pants is a surefire hit "--Lincoln Peirce, author of the Big Nate series

Move over, Wimpy Kid. Here comes the imaginative, the inquisitive, the unstoppable Marty PantsMeet Marty in the side-splitting first book of a new series written by Mark Parisi, the award-winning cartoonist of the Off the Mark comic.

Marty Pants is different from your typical middle schooler. He has the soul of an artist, and as an artist, he notices things--the kinds of things other kids don't seem to see.
So when Marty discovers that an alien is lurking around his town, watching him, Marty knows this is a danger he can't just ignore. But no one, not his best friends Parker and Roongrat or his mother, father, sister, arch-enemy, Simon, or Chief of Police Pickels, believes him.

So, it's up to Marty to save the world--his way.

This hilarious new series follows the endearing, frazzled, embarrassed, and, ultimately, fearless footsteps of literature's most unlikely hero: Marty Pants.