Cooking With Monsters w/ Jordan Alsaqa

Celebrate the launch of Cooking With Monsters Vol 2 by Seattle local author Jordan Alsaqa with a signing at Outsider! With queer romance, monster fighting, and culinary battles, Cooking With Monsters is a series for you if you like fun battle manga! Best of all, it’s great for kids and teens too!

We’ll also have copies of the first volume available so you can start the series from the beginning!

About Jordan:

Jordan Alsaqa is a Palestinian-American comic writer from Charlotte, NC. Jordan graduated from N.C. State University with a degree in Creative Writing. Since the release of his first one-shot Terminal Protocol, co-created with Rem Broo and published by Scout Comics, Jordan has developed numerous projects, including a dozen successful Kickstarter campaigns and several professionally published works.

Jordan’s work includes the YA fantasy trilogy Cooking with Monsters, published by IDW, and Raise Hell!, a comedy horror series published digitally through Comixology. He also writes superhero series Bullet Adventures for Altruist Comics. Previously, he wrote the rural horror miniseries Welderkin for Comicker Press, as well as the one-shots Finding Peace, Party of Your Afterlife, and We Have to Go Back. His work has been featured in numerous shorts and anthologies such as ELECTRUM from Ascend Comics and You Died from Iron Circus Comics.

From the Publisher:

Fast-paced monster fights are back on the menu in this critically acclaimed YA graphic novel featuring high school romances and a diverse cast of LGBTQIA+ characters that is perfect for fans of Naruto, My Hero Academia, and other great manga.

Our heroic chefs-in-training are back for their second spicy year at the Gourmand Academy of Culinary Combat. Missed connections and bitter rivalries are rekindled as Hana, Olivia, Bobby, and the others struggle with new monsters, new techniques, and new recipes! But things are only made more difficult when the crew is split up. 

As Hana and some of her classmates are sent on their first field mission to Clayton Ranch to uncover the secret behind attacks on the local livestock, Olivia, Bobby, and the remaining students in Gourmet City find themselves in the midst of a culinary crime ring. And both seem to be connected to a mysterious band of poachers working for a charismatic and dangerous leader… If the students can’t stop her, Gourmand may just go up in smoke!