Meet Bix, Princess and Rocky -- they're the Jet Pack Pets. Not your typical cat, dog and tortoise, they live secret, adventurous lives when their owners aren't looking! The beloved companions of Mayor Wigby, Police Captain Swerdlow and Fire Chief Pringle live daring double lives to protect the citizens of Sky City. Using specially-designed jet packs to combat sugary monsters and magic-wielding weirdos, the Jet Pack Pets defend justice, fair play and the right to eat a lot of hot dogs.
Readers of Disney Adventures magazine have been enjoying the adventures of the Jet Pack Pets since 2000, and now their stories are being collected into Jet Pack Pack Pets: Let's Make Tracks!, to be published by SLG Publishing's all-ages imprint AmazeInk in September. The FULL-COLOR book features snappy stories full of action, adventure and scientific experiments gone awry by Jet Pack Pets creators Michael Stewart and Garry Black and art by a super team of Jet Pack Pals.
Comic book readers since childhood, Stewart and Black wanted to re-create the fun and excitement in comics that they used to know. "We both got into comics as soon as we could read," said Stewart, "and we knew that there was a huge audience of young kids out there who didn't have many comics to choose from."
The two got the opportunity, after doing an online comic called Mean Planet for the Sci-Fi Channel, to pitch an their idea for a creator-owned series to Disney Adventures. "Our basic idea was to take classic, Disney-style funny animals and combine them with the energy of Silver Age comics, and then mix in some of the anarchy of Warner Bros. Cartoons," Black explained. "That led us to create our three intrepid house pets and their beloved but bumbling owners, whom the pets are continually forced to get out of trouble."
Jet Pack Pets: Let's Make Tracks! will rocket off in 144 pages of full color this September. It is available now for pre-order through Diamond Comics. Too see a preview, visit SLG Publishing's website, www.slavelabor.com.
Established in 1986, SLG Publishing is a San Jose, CA-based publisher of comics books and graphic novels. Operating under its imprints Slave Labor Graphics and Amaze Ink, SLG Publishing has distributed the work of such notable cartoonists as Jhonen Vasquez, Evan Dorkin and Andi Watson. AmazInk, an imprint of SLG, publishes fun comics and graphic novels for readers of all ages.
