Jonathan Turner’s article on the Texas Library Association, Little Maverick List.
Operation Hat Heist makes the Texas Library Association, Little Maverick reading list!
Operation Hat Heist Review
Smash Pages Q&A: Jason Platt
A great write up and interview with Alex Dueben, where we talk about Middle School Misadventures: Operation Hat Heist!, heist films and my newest character, The Captain!
Middle School Misadventures: Operation Hat Heist! Blog tour!
Jason Platt, Drew Brockington, and Lucy Podmore discuss graphic novels
The Captain!
Q-C students get free tickets, new guide for symphony concerts
DAVENPORT — Area students, from preschool through high school, can get free tickets to any Quad City Symphony Orchestra Masterworks concert and enjoy a new program guide created for them.
On Saturday night, the Adler Theatre will fill 700 free seats by students in the Rock Island junior high and high school orchestras, Moline instrumental programs and Pleasant Valley Junior High — along with their family — for the QCSO’s program honoring Leonard Bernstein’s centennial.
Jason Platt's new "Masterpets" comic re-imagines music greats Miles Davis and Leonard Bernstein.
Davenport illustrator wins big graphic novel contract
A longtime dream has come true for Jason Platt, a Davenport-based illustrator, actor and playwright.
His first two graphic novels, based on his 9-year-old comic series "Mister & Me," will be published in 2019 and 2020 by Little, Brown and Company, one of the country’s oldest publishing houses.
Aimed at middle-grade children, the new series "Mister's Misadventures in Middle School" will launch with Newell trying to avoid summer school by participating in a talent show — despite having no idea what his talent is.
Jason Platt, a freelance illustrator, works out of his Davenport home.
This cartoon shows the story behind the QC Symphony’s next performance
When Jason Platt got turned onto classical music as a 20-something, he remembers some of his college friends asking him, “How old are you now? Aren’t you young and hip anymore?”
Two decades later, Platt, now 44, still finds himself sticking up for his love of classical music and combating the stigma that it’s “stuffy and only for a certain kind of people.”
“The energy of being there and seeing it live in front of your eyes is so special,” Platt said. “You’re a part of it. That's something that everyone can enjoy, no matter how old you are."
In his latest endeavor, the Quad-City Symphony Orchestra commissioned Platt, a Davenport-based freelance cartoonist, to create a five-part video series telling the story behind “Symphonie fantastique,” which the symphony will perform on Oct. 7 at the Adler Theatre, kicking off its Masterworks series.
To kick off the Quad-City Symphony Orchestra’s Masterworks series, which opens Oct. 7 at the Adler Theatre, the orchestra will release a five-part cartoon video series telling the story behind one of the featured compositions, “Symphonie fantastique.” The videos will be released next week, starting Monday at 4 p.m. on the organization’s Facebook page.