Mark Crilley

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1997
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Akiko

1 - Akiko on the Planet Smoo (Feb-2000)
2 - Akiko in the Sprubly Islands (Sep-2000)
3 - Akiko and the Great Wall of Trudd (Mar-2001)
4 - Akiko in the Castle Of Alia Rellapor (Sep-2001)
5 - Akiko and the Intergalactic Zoo (Apr-2002)
6 - Akiko and the Journey to Toog (Sep-2003)
Akiko and the Alpha Centauri 5000 (May-2004)
Akiko: The Training Master (Feb-2005)
Akiko: Pices of Gax (Nov-2006)

Billy Clikk

1 - Creatch Battler (May-2004)
2 - Rogmasher Rampage (Sep-2005)

Miki Falls

1 - Spring (May-2007)
2 - Summer (Jul-2007)
3 - Autumn (Oct-2007)
4 - Winter (Jan-2008)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • Menace of Alia Rellapor

    The final installment of the Alia Rellapor Trilogy! Akiko, Spuckler, Mr. Beeba, P.Q. Goybi, Gax and Poog have gained entrance into Alia Rellapor's colossal fortress, only to be captured by the infamous Loza Throck. After they escape from the omino...

  • The Mernace of Alia Rellapor

    This second installment of the first AKIKO trilogy collects issues 8 through 13 of the on-going AKIKO comic book series. In this book, Akiko and her friends continue their journey to rescue the Prince of Smoo from the clutches of Alia Rellapor. Along...

  • Akiko on the Planet Smoo

    Akiko - 1

    When this fourth-grader Akiko comes home from school one day, she finds an envelope waiting for her. It has no stamp or return address. The message inside reads, "Dear Akiko: We are coming to get you. Meet us outside your bedroom window tonight at 8:...

  • Akiko, Volume 4

    The fourth AKIKO Trade Paperback is a very special collection of shorts called “The Story Tree” re-presenting issues 19 through 24 of the on going series. In a secluded valley on earth, Akiko’s four friends from the planet Smoo entertain each o...

  • Akiko in the Sprubly Islands

    Akiko - 2

    In this companion to Akiko on the Planet Smoo, fourth-grade Earthling Akiko and her extraterrestrial crew are on a mission to save kidnapped Prince Froptoppit from the evil Alia Rellapor. Unfortunately, something happens on the way to Alia Rellapor's...

  • Akiko and the Great Wall of Trudd

    Akiko - 3

    In this third installment in the continuing adventures of fourth-grade Earthling Akiko, she and her extraterrestrial crew are nearing the end of their mission to save kidnapped Prince Froptoppit from Alia Rellapor. Nothing can stop this band of intre...

  • Akiko in the Castle Of Alia Rellapor

    Akiko - 4

    Akiko, our fourth-grade Earthling hero, and her loyal crew have finally reached Alia Rellapor's castle, where Prince Froptoppit is being held prisoner. But in this final part of their mission, they must face their greatest challenges. Giant robotic T...

  • Akiko, Volume 1

  • Akiko, Volume 2

    Fourth grader Akiko's perilous mission on planet Smoo continues as their journey to the castle of Alia Rellapor leads Spuckler into battle against a dragon and offers Akiko a chance to drive an intergalactic jalopy....



  • Akiko, Volume 3

  • Bornstone's Elixir

  • Akiko and the Intergalactic Zoo

    Akiko - 5

    Akiko, the Earthling hero best known for helping rescue Prince Froptoppit of the Planet Smoo, has been back on her home planet for several months now. She’s just started fifth grade and has been made leader of the school safety patrol. But Akiko’...

  • Akiko Flights of Fancy

    Collectors of Mark Crilley's AKIKO comic books have long had a well-kept secret all to themsleves: the ongoing procession of fun features, pin-ups, and gags that has marched through the back pages of this series from the very start. AKIKO: FLIGHTS OF...

  • Akiko, Volume 6: Stranded in Komura/Moonshopping

    Akiko's fearless crew crashes on a most unusual and fascinating planet: Earth! Taken in by a Japanese woman an dher elderly grandmother, the intergalactic heroes learn the wonders of Japanese culture. Soon after, the beloved characters journey to a b...

  • Akiko and the Journey to Toog

    Akiko - 6

    “Poog’s in trouble.” Just three simple words, but they’re enough to launch fifth-grade Akiko and the rest of her crew -- Spuckler Boach, Mr. Beeba, and Gax -- on their next mission. And it just might be their most important mission yet: To sa...

  • Akiko and the Alpha Centauri 5000

    Akiko

    Akiko and her crew"Spuckler Boach, Mr. Beeba, Poog, and Gax"are competing in an intergalactic race from one side of the universe to the other. Along the way they have to make it through the narrow passages of the Labyrinth of Lulla-ma-Waygo, the ...

  • Creatch Battler

    Billy Clikk - 1

    Billy Clikk’s just your ordinary, run-of-the-mill . . . hero? A guy whose hobbies include skateboarding, extreme mountain biking -- and a brand of snowboarding he wishes would include a few good old-fashioned body slams. Unfortunately, 12-year-old ...

  • Akiko, Volume 7

    When the intergalactic mega-corporation Gothtek purchases Spuckler's home planet of Nostoram, the heroic space cowboy returns there to defend his family's property. But who's side will Akiko and her friends take in this conflict, when they discover S...

  • Akiko Pocket-Size, Volume 1

    Follow the adventures of Akiko from the very beginning! Join Akiko and her friends on the planet Smoo, where they must save the Prince from the clutches of both the Living Castle of Gamgor and the evil Alia Rellapor. See our heroes meet for the first...



  • Akiko Pocket-Size, Volume 2

    Akiko and her friends are on their way to rescue the Prince of Smoo from the clutches of the evil Alia Rellapor. Along the way, they encounter the insurmountable Great Wall of Trudd, reunite with disgruntled hermit P.Q. goybi, face-off with the villa...

  • Akiko Pocket-Size, Volume 3

    Akiko and her friends have ntered Alia Rellapor's fortress, only to be captured by the infamous Loza Throck. After they escape from the ominous dungeon, the mysterious Alia Rellapor appears at last. Is she really the maniacal monster they suspected h...

  • Akiko: The Training Master

    Akiko

    When Akiko’s Smoovian friends, Poog, Mr. Beeba, Gax, and Spuckler Boach, swing by to pick her up in an astroshuttle, she’s feeling bored with her “normal” life and more than ready to go -- anywhere. What she doesn’t know is that King Fropto...

  • Rogmasher Rampage

    Billy Clikk - 2

    After months of intensive training, Billy is finally ready to go on his first solo creatch op for AFMEC (Allied Forces for the Management of Extraterritorial Creatches). Godzilla-like monsters are menacing the Chinese mountain village of Hua Qing. Bi...

  • Akiko Pocket-Size, Volume 4: The Story Tree

  • Akiko Pocket-Size, Volume 5: Bornstone's Elixir

  • Akiko: Pices of Gax

    Akiko

    Akiko's always prepared for something out of this world, but when she goes on a pleasure trip to Gollarondo with Poog, Mr. Beeba, Spuckler Boach, and Gax she can barely believe her eyes--Gollarondo is a city that was built completely upside down! For...

  • Spring

    Miki Falls - 1

    It's spring--a time for new beginnings. This is Miki Yoshida's final year of high school, and she's determined to make this the best year yet. Miki is in control . . . . . . until Hiro Sakurai shows up. The tall, handsome new student is hiding ...

  • Summer

    Miki Falls - 2

    Has Miki fallen too hard? It's summer, and Miki Yoshida is learning all about love. Her senior year has blossomed with promise ever since she gained Hiro Sakurai's confidence. Now, she's resolved to keep his trust as he reveals more about his sec...

  • Akiko Flights of Fancy: The High Flying Expanded Edition

    Mark Cilley's most popular Akiko collection is now even fancier! Akiko Flights of Fancy: The High Flying Expanded Edition is the definitive anthology of short stories culled from over 50 issues of the original Akiko comic book series and other obscur...



  • Autumn

    Miki Falls - 3

    Is their secret safe? It's autumn, and Miki Yoshida's life is finally settling into a routine. She and Hiro are spending all their time together, and Miki couldn't be happier. There's just one problem. Hiro's breaking all the rules to be wit...

  • Winter

    Miki Falls - 4

    Can love survive? It's winter, and a bitter chill of desperation has settled over Miki and Hiro. Far from home, the young couple treks through the frozen north, with Akuzu's powerful agents hot on their trail. Miki knows they are determined to te...

  • Akiko and the Missing Misp

    AKIKO NEVER KNOWS when her next adventure will zoom her away to another galaxy. And when she’s visited by the Akiko replacement robot in the middle of the first annual Middleton Mega MangaFest, she’s more than eager to visit her friends on planet...

  • Brody's Ghost, Volume 1

    Brody hoped it was just a hallucination. But no, the teenaged ghostly girl who'd come face to face with him in the middle of a busy city street was all too real. And now she was back, telling him she needed his help in hunting down a dangerous killer...

  • Brody's Ghost, Volume 2

    Brody knew that being mixed up with Talia, a dead girl turned ghost, was going to change his life forever. He just didn’t realize it was going to involve going head-to-head with one of the most vicious gangs in the whole city. But here he was, givi...

  • Brody's Ghost, Volume 3

    Brody's fight training, under the tutelage of samurai ghost Kagemura, has toughened his body and honed his senses so finely that Brody can not only communicate with ghosts, but envision how and when someone dies. However, his new skills aren't quite ...

  • Brody's Ghost, Volume 4

    Brody's racing against time to uncover the identity of the Penny Murderer before he claims his next victim: Brody's exgirlfriend. But he's also found out that Talia, the ghost who set him on this road to justice, has been lying to him from the start....

  • Brody's Ghost Volume 5

    Brody gets a pivotal lead in his search for the Penny Murderer and his quest to save his ex-girlfriend's life! But to follow it, Brody has to break ties with his ghostly guide Talia, just when he needs her most! * From multiple Eisner nominee Mar...

  • Brody's Ghost, Volume 5

    Brody gets a pivotal lead in his search for the Penny Murderer and his quest to save his ex-girlfriend's life! But to follow it, Brody has to break ties with his ghostly guide Talia, just when he needs her most! * From multiple Eisner nominee Mark Cr...

  • Brody's Ghost, Volume 6

    Everything has changed for Brody since teenaged ghost Talia entered his life. Now trained in the supernatural arts, strong in mind and body, and with Talia's murder solved, Brody has mere hours to stop her killer from making his ex-girlfriend Nicole ...



  • Brody's Ghost Collected Edition

    Acclaimed author Mark Crilley tells his greatest tale yet in this intense supernatural thriller! After losing his job, his girlfriend, and his home, Brody learns that things can get even worse when he begins seeing a ghostly teenage girl watching him...

  • My Last Summer with Cass

    This One Summer meets The Edge of Seventeen in this poignant coming-of-age YA graphic novel about two childhood friends at a crossroads in their lives and art from the author of Mastering Manga.Megan and Cass have been joined at the brush for as long...

  • Lost in Taiwan

    In this exciting graphic novel about stepping out of your comfort zone, a traveler finds himself lost in Taiwan with no way of finding his brother—but he soon learns that this forced disconnect is helping him explore and experience the big wide...

  • Lost in Taiwan (A Graphic Novel)

    In this exciting graphic novel about stepping out of your comfort zone, a traveler finds himself lost in Taiwan with no way of finding his brother—but he soon learns that this forced disconnect is helping him explore and experience the big wide...

  • The Mighty Onion

    This hilarious illustrated novel about the chaos of the creative process follows middle schooler Eliot Quigly as he endeavors to create the best superhero comic ever -- with unforgettably epic hiccups along the way!   Eliot Quigly is sure...

  • The Mighty Onion and Guinea Pig Girl!

    In this hilarious illustrated novel about the chaos of the creative process, Pam and Eliot are back—and creating comics for their local newspaper this time! But when their careers start taking them in different directions, will this dynamic duo...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mark Crilley has published 45 books.

The next book by Mark Crilley, The Mighty Onion and Guinea Pig Girl!, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by Mark Crilley, Menace of Alia Rellapor, was published in June 1997.

Yes. Mark Crilley has 3 series.
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