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On a normal morning, a boy named Thomas discovers his mother has been replaced by a fern ...a monstrous fern! What happened to his mom? Did the fern eat her? Where did this fern come from anyway? Outer space? Will it eat his father too? Will it eat Thomas? Written by graphic novelist Marzena Sowa (Marzi: A Memoir), beautifully painted by rising star Berenika Kolomycka, That Night, A Monster...is a unique all ages children's comic. Marzena Sowa is an internationally renowned Polish graphic novelist. Her best known work, Marzi--a memoir of Communist Poland through the eyes of a child--has been translated into several languages. She loves dictionaries and cheesecake, hates spiders, and is a crazy skateboarder. Marzena lives in Brussels. Berenika Kolomycka is a sculptor, illustrator, and a rising star of European comics. In 2011, she received the Grand Prix at the Lodz International Comics Festival. She lives in Poland.

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Marzena Sowa is a Polish graphic novelist living in France. She was born in 1979, in a small industrial city, Stalowa Wola (Poland). She left her country in 2001 and settled in Bordeaux where she finished her studies (started at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow) in French and Italian literature. Since 2006, she has lived partly in France, in a small village in Champagne, and partly in Belgium (Brussels). In collaboration with Sylvain Savoia, she published one comic book series Marzi which tells the story of her childhood in the communist Poland. The book has been translated in several languages, including English. Recently, her new graphic novel has been released in France, in collaboration with a French cartoonist Sandrine Revel, its title N'embrassez pas qui vous voulez. Very soon, it will be also published in Polish. A major theme in her writings is history. Not only facts and dates, but the people who experienced history and the way that history affects their lives. She loves dictionaries, even of the languages she doesn't speak. She is afraid of spiders and crazy about skateboarding and cheesecakes.

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