A Day in the Office of Doctor Bugspit — Elise Gravel

With simple text and cartoon artwork, Balloon Toons are the the perfect way to engage and encourage new readers. Award-winning and up-and-coming cartoonists lend their inimitable and illustrative talents to entertaining stories kids will enjoy again and again.Looking like a cross between a slug and a sock puppet, alien Doctor Bugspit plies his trade. He blithely dispenses jars of �"Fix-It-Up Syrup” (made from sock juice, dead flies, moldy meat, pickle juice and ear wax) and other nostrums to extraterrestrial patients complaining of maladies ranging from split brains (�"You have two smaller brains,” the doctor diagnoses, �"like a cow”) to an all-body outbreak of toes. Despite nap and lunch breaks (�"my favorite sandwich: slug slime and glow-in-the-dark jelly”) it's an exhausting routine but the good doctor is up to it� -- until, that is, the gooey results of a sneeze (�"some yellow stuff is coming out of my nose!”) send him into panic-stricken calls for �"a REAL doctor!” Presented in a loose assortment of graphic panels, page-sized or smaller, this Balloon Toons entry will exert a strong draw on budding graphic-novel fans as well as children fascinated by yucky stuff.