![]() ![]() When Frank Cho transferred from Prince George’s Community College in the early 1990s, he brought his artistic talents to The Diamondback. From there, he published 13 more books in the series and saw it make the big screen in 2010, when the 20th Century Fox-produced adaptation hit theaters.Īn early ‘Igdoof’ comic strip. ![]() Kinney published the first hardcover book in the series in 2007, the same year he developed Poptropica, a popular online game for children. ![]() After graduation, Kinney tried to syndicate Igdoof, but there were no takers, so he shifted his efforts to Wimpy Kid. ![]() Though it took Kinney two years to get The Diamondback to publish his strip, it quickly acquired a cult status. The criminology and criminal justice major published his comic, Igdoof, in The Diamondback more than a full decade before Wimpy Kid first made its debut on in 2004. Kinney is the mind behind Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the bestselling book series chronicling the adventures of middle school slacker Greg Heffley. Jeff Kinney, a Prince George’s County native and 1993 graduate of the University of Maryland, is an alumnus with a talent for penning and portraying. ![]()
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