Ward Jenkins
Ward Jenkins is a children's book illustrator and storyboard artist from the Atlanta, Georgia area. He's illustrated picture books for Simon & Schuster (Chicks Run Wild and How to Train with a T.Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals) and Chronicle Books (New York, Baby! and San Francisco, Baby!). Other books he's illustrated are Salam Alaikum: A Message of Peace and Rocket Shoes. He also illustrated Tales of the Dairy Godmother: Chuck’s Ice Cream Wish, which won the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture's prestigious Book Of The Year for 2021. In between illustrating books, he's also a storyboard artist for such shows as My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Snoopy In Space, Camp Snoopy, and Ada Twist, Scientist. Ward's latest endeavor has been illustrating Stuart Gibbs's Moon Base Alpha graphic novel series, with the first two installments out now: Space Case: The Graphic Novel and Spaced Out: The Graphic Novel. Ward lives with his wife Andrea, who's a writer and photographer, and they have two kids: Ava and Ezra (both young adults and nascent artists). He hasn't shaved his beard since 2010.
Connect with
Ward Jenkins
Spaced Out: The Graphic Novel
There’s nowhere to hide on the world’s first moon base. After all, it’s only the size of a soccer field. So when Nina Stack, the commander of Moon Base Alpha, mysteriously vanishes, the Moonies are at a total loss.
Though he may be just twelve years old, Dashiell Gibson is the best detective they’ve got. But this confusing mystery pushes Dash to his limits. Especially since Dash accidentally made contact with an alien and has to keep it a secret. With the fate of the entire human race hanging in the balance, will Dash be able to solve the mystery of the missing Moonie?
An out-of-this-world full-color graphic novel!
