
Sam Kieth&s (THE MAXX) signature style perfectly captures the mind of an adolescent girl as she struggles with school romance & anxiety-based superpowers Zero Girl is the story of Amy Smootster a 15-year-old high school student whose feelings of alienation & loneliness occasionally manifest in the form of odd abilities She deals as best she can with the help of her high school guidance counsellor Tim whom she is secretly in love with From Sam Kieth renowned creator of THE MAXX whose work has influenced the industry from The Sandman to MTV&s Liquid Television About the Author Sam Kieth is an American comic book writer & illustrator best known as the creator of The Maxx & Zero Girl Kieth first came to prominence in 1984 as the inker of Matt Wagner&s Mage & a year later as the inker of Fish Police In 1989 he penciled the first five issues (the " Preludes & Nocturnes" story arc) of Neil Gaiman&s celebrated series The Sandman & collaborated with Alan Grant on a Penguin story in Secret Origins Special 1 In 1993 Kieth created the original series The Maxx for fledgling publisher Image Comics The Maxx ran 35 issues all of which were plotted & illustrated by Kieth William Messner-Loebs scripted 1-15 & Alan Moore wrote 21 In 1995 The Maxx was adapted as part of MTV&s short-lived animation series MTV&s Oddities After taking a break from comics to pursue other interests Kieth created the series Zero Girl for DC Comics& Wildstorm imprint in 2001 He followed that with the drama Four Women later that year & Zero Girl Full Circle in 2003 In 2010 Kieth wrote & illustrated the original hardcover graphic novel Arkham Asylum Madness which spent two weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list reaching number five in the category of " Hardcover Graphic Books"