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Max West

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Born

in New York City, The United States

Website

http://www.sunnyvillestories.com

Twitter

mousetrappress

Genre

Comics, Fantasy, Children's

Influences

Charles M. Schulz, Richard Scarry, Marc Brown ...more

Member Since

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Max West was born and raised in New York City. He spent much of his youth making visits to his local library (starting a lifelong love of books) and watching much television - both cartoons of the 1980s on broadcast TV and a variety of movies and specials on cable TV.

Earning a degree in creative writing from Baruch College in 2003 and taking night classes in art at the nearby School of Visual Arts, he created Sunnyville Stories in 2009 and completed his first adventure with Rusty Duncan and Samantha Macgregor in spring of 2010.

Mr. West and his work have been featured in the Midwest Book Review, Self Publisher, Library Journal, the Forum of Fargo-Moorhead and many others.

He currently lives and works in Fargo, North Dakota.

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Average rating: 4.09 · 23 ratings · 16 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Sunnyville Stories (Volume 1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sunnyville Stories (Volume 3) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Von Herling, Vampire Hunter 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sunnyville Stories (Volume 2) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Fairy Godmother Tonica it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Whimsical Worlds of Max West it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sunnyville Stories (Volume 4) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I have some big news to share today!

I’m now going ahead with the planned redrawing of Sunnyville Stories episode 1! It is going to be commencing over the next few weeks. I’ve been going back over the original version drawn WAAAAY back in 2010 and am making notes of what I can do differently.

In addition to that, I’ll be sharing here and on other sites (Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, etc) short one-pa

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