Pedro Martín (author)
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Pedro "Peter" Martín is a Mexican-American graphic artist, children's book author, and former-Hallmark artist.[1][2] He was raised in the Monterey Bay-area and graduated from San Jose State University, studying graphic design.[3] After college, he worked as an illustrator at Hallmark, where he designed holiday cards; it was here that he later created the character Asteroid Andy, a young boy who meets various aliens after an alien elementary school lands near his house.[2]
He is most well known for his graphic novel Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir, inspired by a childhood journey to Jalisco, Mexico in an RV with his parents and 8 siblings when he was 13. He developed the story into a webcomic first and then a graphic novel.[4] The novel won the Pura Belpré Author Award,[5] Pura Belpré Youth Illustrator Award,[6] and earned a Newbery Honor in 2024.[7]
