NeonSeon is the pen name of American writer and illustrator Seon Ricks. Ricks was born on December 6, 1974, in Hyde Park, Chicago. [1]
Ricks created a comic strip called Shouty Mack for her high school newspaper, The Weekly, at Francis W. Parker School. [2] Years later she developed the character Shouty into the book series Life of Shouty. [3]
Released under the pseudonym NeonSeon, [4] the debut book in the series, Life of Shouty: Good Habits, came out May 2010. [5] Good Habits was selected by the Midwest Book Review for inclusion in the Children's Bookwatch. [6] Her second book, Life of Shouty: Food Fitness, debuted October 2011. [3]
Ricks attended the John W. Draper Program at New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science [7] and received an MA in Humanities and Social Thought. [8]
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