The Moolah Tree

Pluck, an irritable and featherless rooster, and his best pal, the awkward-but-lovable teddy bear known as Fuzz, met long ago in a garbage truck. A tenuous―if decidedly co-dependent―friendship followed, sending them on a series of not-so-heroic adventures. But now, we find them on a ramshackle barge, slowly drifting out to sea. How did they get there? How will they escape?

Ted Stearn, born in Massachusetts, is an L.A.-based cartoonist and animator. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and the School of Visual Arts, he segued into a career in animation, working on such series as Futurama, King of the Hill, and Beavis and Butthead. He has also taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design. In 2014, he won Best Series at the international Angoulême comics festival.