The Secrets of Skull Castle
I’ve self-published a brand-new comic for adults that’s called The Secrets of Skull Castle! It’s the secret gay love story of…two toys? It’s very fun and very weird. You can read it here or buy a print copy!
The Stupendous Switcheroo: Can't Go Home Again is out now!
Today our third STUPENDOUS SWITCHEROO book comes out, Can't Go Home Again! Switch really GOES THROUGH it this time, as he finds himself enrolled in the Valor Innovations Academy and has to compete with super-genius rivals! Also: lots and lots of robots! Mary Winn Heider and I had such a blast putting this together, and all three books are now available in beautiful paperbacks, so it's the perfect time to check out the series!!
The Stupendous Switcheroo: Born to be Bad -- Out now!
THE STUPENDOUS SWITCHEROO: Born to be Bad is out TODAY! The second book in our series completely twists things around as Switcheroo teams up with a villainous new crew for an epic jailbreak!!
It's a hilarious and heartfelt new adventure that forces Switcheroo to question his own character and what it means to fight for what’s right. Mary Winn Heider and I had such an absolute blast bringing this silly (and sincere) story to life, and we hope it will be just as much fun for our readers, too!
Get the book here!
The Cardboard Kingdom: Snow & Sorcery is out now!
The Cardboard Kingdom: Snow & Sorcery is out TODAY!!! It is the final volume in the CK trilogy, and I am so thrilled and thankful for the work of the entire writing team: Vid Alliger, Manuel Betancourt, David DeMeo, Jay Fuller-Ng, Barbara Perez Marquez, Katie Schenkel, and Jasmine Walls! (And countless thanks to our editor Marisa DiNovis!!)
Set during winter break, Snow & Sorcery has tons of fun snowball fights, ice palaces, and exciting new characters! There are also incredibly emotional chapters with so many of the kids you already know and love! I’ll be sharing more about each one later this week, as well as some sneak peeks at all the new kids joining the kingdom! Get CK: Snow & Sorcery here or wherever books are sold!
Launch events for THE STUPENDOUS SWITCHEROO!
THE STUPENDOUS SWITCHEROO is out now!! It’s a new superhero series from Mary Winn Heider and me! I’ll be doing a whole lot of fun events to celebrate the launch in Chicago and the Northeast! You can also order the book here.
September 9, Glastonbury, CT: 11:00am panel discussion and reading with J. C. Phillipps and Brandon T. Snider on the Author Stage of the Glastonbury Arts & Crafts Festival, followed by a signing from 11:30am-1pm. This is a free community event!
September 15, Chicago, IL: 7pm launch party at The Book Cellar with Mary Winn Heider!
September 17, Downers Grove, IL: 2pm launch event with Mary Winn Heider at Anderson’s Bookshop, Downers Grove. Tickets required!
September 30, Chappaqua, NY: Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival, 10am-4pm
October 7, Glen Rock, NJ: Glen Rock Children’s Book Festival, 11am-3pm
October 15, New York, NY: New York Comic Con, Draw with the Artists demonstration, Family HQ, 12:30pm-1:30pm 1E01
The Cardboard Kingdom: Snow & Sorcery!
I’ve been wanting to share this news for a long time: We’re doing a THIRD Cardboard Kingdom book, called SNOW & SORCERY! It follows the CK kids over winter break as they make some new friends (and enemies??) from a nearby neighborhood. We’re excited to introduce a whole lot of fun new characters into the Cardboard Kingdom, as well as a fantastic new writer to the series: Jasmine Walls! SNOW & SORCERY will be out November 7th, and you can pre-order it now!
The Stupendous Switcheroo!
Mary Winn Heider and I have a new book series coming out September 12th, 2023. It’s called THE STUPENDOUS SWITCHEROO! It follows the outrageous story of a boy who wakes up every day with different superpowers, and you can pre-order it now!
Doodleville: Art Attacks is out now!
Today, Doodleville: Art Attacks is out! It’s the culmination of everything I’ve tried to do with my world of Doodleville. Making this book was excruciatingly difficult, exhilarating, surprising, and sometimes scary. I was, perhaps, being a little ambitious when I decided to tell a story about kids in an art museum where all the paintings come to life, resulting in an epic, dizzying, mind-bending trip through all the deepest, darkest parts of my own imagination. But it’s finally available, and you can get your own copy here!
I’ve always thought that my Doodleville series is the younger, stranger stepsister of my Cardboard Kingdom books. A darker fairytale world where art can come to life, but sometimes in monstrous ways. Where creativity has both a light and a dark side, where the main character Drew struggles with all the same doubts and demons that I do. It’s been a heck of a journey, and I hope you’ll check out the climactic conclusion to my Doodleville Duology!
ROAR OF THE BEAST is now available!
The second book in our Cardboard Kingdom series, ROAR OF THE BEAST, is out today!
Making the first Cardboard Kingdom was a magical experience – teaming up with ten writers who each contributed characters and shared their stories. I wasn’t sure how we could possibly capture that magic again for a second book, but I think that we’ve come up with something pretty dang exciting in ROAR OF THE BEAST!
The same creative team joined me to create an epic adventure in the Cardboard Kingdom where a mysterious monster stalks through the neighborhood at night. Every kid in the Kingdom will need to join together to solve the mystery and defeat (or master?) this menacing new monster!
Thank you to Vid Alliger, Manuel Betancourt, Michael Cole, David DeMeo, Jay Fuller-Ng, Cloud Jacobs, Barbara Perez Marquez, Molly Muldoon, and Katie Schenkel for joining me yet again on this wild, creative journey! Thank you to Marisa DiNovis, who was our editor and champion throughout! And thanks to everyone at Penguin Random House for making this book happen!
We hope that this book will tickle and thrill readers of all ages, and we get SO EXCITED to hear your reactions and see your own creative cardboard costumes and creations! Although the publication of ROAR OF THE BEAST is the culmination of several years of work from a huge creative team, it feels like the start of something special as readers around the world can finally return to the CARDBOARD KINGDOM! Available wherever books are sold!
The Cardboard Kingdom: Roar of the Beast!
The second book in the Cardboard Kingdom series is ROAR OF THE BEAST, and it will be out on June 1st, 2021! I worked with the same creative team telling exciting new stories about all the characters you met in Book 1 of The Cardboard Kingdom. In this new installment, the kids are getting ready for Halloween, but the appearance of a menacing new monster threatens all their plans! You can pre-order ROAR OF THE BEAST here!
Doodleville Coloring Pages
I’ve designed ten different coloring pages that you can download and draw on! I encourage kids to get creative and turn these doodles into whatever they want, just like Drew and her friends do in Doodleville!
The Doodle World Tour!
To celebrate the release of my new graphic novel DOODLEVILLE, my doodles are going on a world tour! You can download these printable images of the book’s characters and set up scenes with them at your own home! Will they meet your own drawings? Or your toys? Or pets??
Simply click here to download a four-page PDF, or download the individual pages. If you have a printer, you can print them and cut them out, or you can work with them right on the screen of a phone or tablet!
I would love to see what happens at your stop on the Doodle World Tour! To share photos of your event, post the photos on Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #doodleworldtour and tag me: @chadsell01. You can also share the photos on my Facebook page!
DOODLEVILLE is out now!!
My newest children’s graphic novel is NOW AVAILABLE!!! Yay! DOODLEVILLE is an incredibly personal story about doubt, anxiety, and inner demons. Plus, lots of fun stuff, too! You can get it from a variety of vendors here, or at your local bookshop!
Introducing DOODLEVILLE!
DOODLEVILLE is coming out in just a few weeks! To introduce you to the world and some of its characters, I’ve made a video of myself reading the whole first chapter!
Doodleville is out on June 9th, and you can pre-order it now! If you’d like to see a little more of the book, here’s a reading from Chapter 3!
Doodleville!
My next children’s graphic novel is Doodleville, coming out this June! It’s a magical exploration of creativity and collaboration set in my neighborhood of Chicago — with field trips to the Art Institute!
Doodleville is about kids coming together to solve a monstrous problem of their own making—there’s drawing, an emotional adventure, and an epic battle of good and evil. I’m excited to share more soon!
You can find out more about Doodleville and even pre-order it here!
What's next from Chad?
My next graphic novel is called Doodleville! It will be out in the summer of 2020, and I am very excited about it. After working with a team of ten amazing writers for The Cardboard Kingdom, I decided to try writing and drawing a book all by myself, and so Doodleville is my first full-length solo book!
I hope that Doodleville will appeal to all the same readers who have enjoyed The Cardboard Kingdom. It is about kids coming together to solve a massive problem of their own making, and there is drawing, there are doodles, and there are epic battles of good and evil. I’m excited to share more soon!
I am also excited to be working on The Cardboard Kingdom: Roar of the Beast, which will feature all the same characters and creators from CK Book 1! Roar of the Beast should be out in summer of 2021! Does all of that sound complicated? This is how I’m hoping the next few years go:
2020: Doodleville
2021: The Cardboard Kingdom: Roar of the Beast
2022: More Doodleville!
2023: More Cardboard Kingdom?
2024: More Doodleville??
2025: WHO KNOWS???????
Welcome to THE CARDBOARD KINGDOM!
The Cardboard Kingdom is a graphic novel about kids, creativity, and cardboard! The book follows a variety of children who all live and play in the same neighborhood -- throughout the many chapters, you'll see each child's story unfold, overlap with other kids' adventures, and finally converge upon an epic final quest before summer's end! I created and coordinated the project with these ten amazing writers: Jay Fuller, David DeMeo, Katie Schenkel, Kris Moore, Manuel Betancourt, Molly Muldoon, Vid Alliger, Cloud Jacobs, Michael Cole, and Barbara Perez Marquez. The Cardboard Kingdom is out now from Knopf Books for Young Readers!
We also have free papercraft designs that you can download and make at home for twelve different Cardboard Kingdom masks and projects! They were created by Kostas Ntanos!
RuPaul's Drag Race: Season 10
Hi! You can find all my new Season 10 art right here! Buy prints of my work on Etsy!
I'll be posting coloring book versions of some of this season's art here.
I'll be posting "behind the queens" looks at my work on Patreon, where any supporters will immediately get access to all my exclusive content!
You can find out about my other big project for 2018, THE CARDBOARD KINGDOM, right here!
All Stars 3
Hi! You can find all my new RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars art right here! Buy prints of my work on Etsy!
I'll be posting coloring book versions of some of this season's art here.
I'll be posting "behind the scenes" looks at my work on Patreon, where any supporters will immediately get access to all my exclusive content!
You can find out about my other big project for 2018, THE CARDBOARD KINGDOM, right here!
ALL STARS 3!
I'm already hard at work on art for All Stars 3! I'm going to be doing things a little differently this season, but while you wait for the finished art for Episode 1, feel free to download this coloring book art of Trixie and make a masterpiece! More coloring book art from past seasons can be found here.