Jackson Ruiz

It's Cool in the Furnace: the First Graphic Novel by Jackson Ruiz

It was four months before Valentine's Day, 2010, when I, Jackson Ruiz, started thinking about what I wanted to make for my classmates for their gift. Then I remembered the play our class had put on in third grade in 2009. I decided to make a comic book of "It's Cool in the Furnace" our play of last year. Four months later, pretty much everyone was saying , "Jackson, we love your comic book". So here is how I got the book together. I started drawing panels telling the story, and then I started adding my own comments about what some classmates had made up, and then I started adding some extra scenes that hadn't exactly been in the play. Guess I have to admit I added in Patrica and the guards and other random people who really weren't in the original play. Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you about the Banana Muffins. For my half-birthday party, my mom and I had made the best Banana Muffins in the world and everyone in my class wanted the recipe. So it seemed like a good idea to include the recipe even though it is pretty far removed from the story plot.