Matthew Southworth is a comic artist and writer. He is the co-creator (with Greg Rucka) of the comic book series Stumptown, as well as an Executive Producer of ABC’s Stumptown TV series. Garth Stein is a New York Times-bestselling author, filmmaker and playwright. He is the author of several plays and four novels. His book, The Art of Racing in the Rain, has sold over six million copies worldwide, been produced as a stage play, children’s book, and a film. The Cloven Book One (Fantagraphics) stars James Tucker, the most successful Genetically Modified Human Organism ever created. Conceived in a privately financed, top-secret laboratory on Washington state’s Vashon Island, Tucker is a cross between a human and a goat — a Cloven. All “Tuck” wants is to live a normal life as a university student; everything is going fine, until he shows a girl his hooves. Book One follows Tuck’s journey across the Pacific Northwest as he searches for his true home out there somewhere. It is the first of a raucous, funny, fast-moving, and dynamic series of graphic novels. Neal Bascomb, New York Times bestselling author of The Winter Fortress and Faste has cheered Book One as “riveting — a delightful modern-day twist on the Frankenstein story. The writing is stylistically dark; the art is vivid and strikingly beautiful.  Stein and Southworth have created a masterful and unique world.”