It's Cool in the Furnace: The first graphic novel by Jackson Ruiz, (Paperback)

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.