Evan Brain: Adventures of a Delusional Kid Superhero

Eve Becker-Doyle and Evan Brian Doyle

Price: $13.95  

Evan Brain! marks the debut of 15-year old Evan Doyle - cartoonist, illustrator and co-author of this original work cataloging Evan's hilarious antics. Eve Becker-Doyle, co-author and Evan's longsuffering mother, offers her accounts of family members, kindergarten mayhem and Evan's fascination with comics and Calvin. Accompanying these true stories are Evan's actual apology notes, letters to his parents and homework assignments. Following each chapter are Evan's fantasy renderings of people or incidents: "Besides his parents, Evan observed two other freakish alien beings lived in his house. One was a boy, obviously a Zargaxian Gortak from a distant galaxy...this gruesome creature was Evan's brother...there was a girl as well. She, too, was an imposter, a Tentacle-eyed Bloodworm...A hideous creature indeed." Kindergarten becomes jail and his teacher, Ms. M, the evil hag Torblax Mugtulla. One episode that finds Evan giving a classmate a haircut morphs into "a titanic fight" in which Evan succeeds "in scalping the Gorbat alive." The outcome of the vicious brawl: "Due to his victory against the Gorbat, the evil overlord known as the principal allowed Evan to have a three-day vacation."

Evan Brain's Christmas List and Other Shenanigans:
Boy Warrior Fights Evil

Eve Becker-Doyle and Evan Brian Doyle

Price: $15.95  

ISBN: 978-0-9794716-3-6

Don't miss this zany sequel to EVAN BRAIN! Adventures of a Delusional Kid Superhero where Evan morphs from kid superhero adventurer to boy warrior in his ongoing fight against evil. One story. Two perspectives. Evan's mother writes about her quirky son's shenanigans...Evan, 15, records the heroic boy warrior's epic battle against evil. Evan assembles his Christmas list with lots of sass and imagination, fires off a disgruntled letter to the tooth fairy, figures Mensa members shun broken fish, wonders if his cousin with the neck scar had a head transplant, considers a veterinarian for his next doctor visit, declares he wants a tattoo of Calvin, and of course, writes insincere apology notes.

Coming soon

Evan Brain Meets Midas the Penny Pincher: Financial Literacy Ain’t Rocket Science I

Eve Becker-Doyle and Evan Brian Doyle

Price: $15.95

ISBN 978-0-9794716-6-7

Evan Brain tackles the world of money in the Financial Literacy Ain’t Rocket Science books. Through these stories Evan is introduced to the basic principles of finance. This turns out to be more than he wants to know about earning, saving, borrowing and investing money, and the role banks and insurance play in safeguarding it.

In the first financial literacy book, Evan Brain Meets Midas the Penny Pincher, Evan encounters an old guy who saves pennies. Evan’s offbeat observations about green stuff will entertain and educate readers from 8 to 80. Fun funky factoid sidebars include expressions about money (What is one red cent? What does pinching pennies mean?), how coins are minted and African American treasury officers on U.S. currency.

In this excerpt, Evan decides to have a rock auction to earn money.
Only adults were invited because they had to have money and couldn’t be too smart. What was the take? Turns out Evan made $20. The $4,000 rock didn’t sell. That was ok. Evan didn’t really want to part with it.

Coming soon

Evan Brain, Show Me the Money! Financial Literacy Ain’t Rocket Science II 

Eve Becker-Doyle and Evan Brian Doyle

Price: $15.95

ISBN 978-0-9794716-7-4

The incorrigible Evan Brain is back with more irreverent comments and insights about money, banks and insurance. This lively and engaging book makes less than enthralling subject matter – the basics of finance -- fun and memorable. Evan investigates and learns more about planning for the future, saving, borrowing, investing and protecting his bucks.

A third title, Evan Brain: Money Makes the World Go ‘Round (Financial Literacy Ain’t Rocket Science III) is also in the works.

Coming soon

Evan Brain and the Christmas Rat

Eve Becker-Doyle and Evan Brian Doyle

Price: $15.95

ISBN 978-0-9794716-4-3

Evan Brain and the Christmas Rat recounts the true story of a rascally rodent that invaded and terrorized Evan’s household on Christmas Eve when Evan was three.
 
Each family member writes and illustrates an eyewitness account of the hair-raising episode.

From Eve’s story…
I carried the sleeping Evan to the bathroom. I positioned him so he could hit the target, pulled down his skivvies, and reached around him to flip up the lid.  A huge, nasty-looking RAT was thrashing about in the toilet bowl. It SCARED THE BEJEEBERS OUT OF ME. I ran screaming down the hall… my youngest son was the farthest thing from my mind…

From Evan’s story…
I lifted the toilet seat and went about my business. It wasn’t until too late that I noticed my blunder: the Kraylax leapt from the porcelain bowl, dripping wet, stained with poo from days of yore, claws hyperextended. Its jowls flopped wildly from side to side, spittle caking the tiled walls.  I drew my sword, but the Kraylax slapped it from my hand…