Dan & Jason
Author of Blue, Barry & Pancakes (Blue, Barry & Pancakes, 1)
Dan & Jason is Dan Jason (2). For other authors named Dan Jason, see the disambiguation page.
Series
Works by Dan & Jason
Blue, Barry & Pancakes: Escape from Balloonia (Blue, Barry & Pancakes, 2) (2021) 27 copies, 1 review
Blue, Barry & Pancakes: Danger on Mount Choco (Blue, Barry & Pancakes, 3) (2022) 19 copies, 2 reviews
Blue, Barry & Pancakes: Enter the Underground Throwdown (Blue, Barry & Pancakes, 4) (2022) 13 copies, 1 review
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Abdo, Daniel Rajai
Patterson, Jason Linwood - Other names
- Dan & Jason
- Short biography
- Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson are long-time partners, best friends and co-creators of the animated comedy series Rocket Monkeys. Their credits also include developing shows for Disney, Sesame Workshop, Fox, and Nickelodeon, not to mention directing lots and lots of animated commercials!Dan & Jason go back. Waaaaay back. They got their start drawing and writing stories in what feels like the early Jurassic period, also known as the '90s, when they were making comics in the back of their high school art room. Annnnnd they never stopped!
The acclaimed cartooning duo live, breathe, and eat comics and animation.... They love writing and drawing these stories more than anything else in the whole wide world, and they really hope you like reading them. Dan and Jason make everything together! They think it, write it, draw it, mix it, bake it, and serve it together. Just like Blue, Barry, and Pancakes, they're best friends!
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Reviews
Three friends live in a big three-floored treehouse together: Blue (a worm); Barry (a frog); and Pancakes (a rabbit). In this first volume of a graphic novel series, the trio visit a beach and play with an inflatable ball, which gets lost in a spectacular way, resulting in increasingly ridiculous situations from a spaceship pool party to an inner volcano birthday party.
This is a very silly book that will appeal to kids who like goofy and slapstick humor, like Looney Tunes cartoons or Dog show more Man comics. The language is relatively simple and fairly sparse so this is a good choice for reluctant or struggling readers or those who are just moving on from early readers.
The reason I didn't like the book better was the characters were a little obnoxious in the beginning and I didn't quite get over that. I thought for such supposedly good friends, Barry and Pancakes choosing to play Keep Away with Blue in the middle *after* Blue explicitly asked them not to play with his collectible beach ball was poor behavior, although they do eventually apologize for it at the conclusion of the book. Also, in a very bizarre illustration, when the ball first goes missing, the thought/speech bubble for Blue is that of a ticking bomb. Is that supposed to indicate Blue is that angry? Or is a "bleep" for a curse word? I don't know but either way, it was weird and makes me feel uncomfortable recommending this book to youngsters.
The illustrative style is very cartoony, which fits with the tone and intended audience for the book, but it is not my preferred style. Backmatter develops the characters a little further; a brief mention of "her" here illuminates that Pancakes is a female character. show less
This is a very silly book that will appeal to kids who like goofy and slapstick humor, like Looney Tunes cartoons or Dog show more Man comics. The language is relatively simple and fairly sparse so this is a good choice for reluctant or struggling readers or those who are just moving on from early readers.
The reason I didn't like the book better was the characters were a little obnoxious in the beginning and I didn't quite get over that. I thought for such supposedly good friends, Barry and Pancakes choosing to play Keep Away with Blue in the middle *after* Blue explicitly asked them not to play with his collectible beach ball was poor behavior, although they do eventually apologize for it at the conclusion of the book. Also, in a very bizarre illustration, when the ball first goes missing, the thought/speech bubble for Blue is that of a ticking bomb. Is that supposed to indicate Blue is that angry? Or is a "bleep" for a curse word? I don't know but either way, it was weird and makes me feel uncomfortable recommending this book to youngsters.
The illustrative style is very cartoony, which fits with the tone and intended audience for the book, but it is not my preferred style. Backmatter develops the characters a little further; a brief mention of "her" here illuminates that Pancakes is a female character. show less
This is a perfect beginning graphic novel. The story is so cute. My nephew will flip over it, and as a struggling reader, it is perfect for where he is at. Plus I think Pancake will be one of his new favorite characters. I love how Blue (the worm) is the studious one, Barry is the middle child, and Pancakes is the crazy friend who wants to do it all and take you with them.
This is such a fun series. Blue, Berry, and Pancake are best friends. One day, Blue goes spelunking with some other friends leaving Berry feeling very left out and like Blue is no longer their friend. Nothing could be closer to the truth and the friends all go on a wild and crazy adventure under this world. Plus, they learn that it is okay to have various groups of friends and that you don’t’ always have to be with the same people. This series is such fun. Young and old alike will enjoy show more the antics and colorful illustrations found in the pages. show less
Independent Reading Level: Grades 2-3
Awards
Statistics
- Works
- 5
- Members
- 135
- Popularity
- #150,830
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 7
- ISBNs
- 32