Mic Looby

{{short description|Australian author and illustrator}}

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Mic Looby (born 1969) is an Australian author and illustrator.

A former guidebook writer for Lonely Planet, his debut novel Paradise Updated – a satire about the inner workings of a guidebook company – was published in 2009 by Affirm Press. Looby is also a columnist with the Australian chapter of The Big Issue magazine and has illustrated three titles in the It's True! series of children's non-fiction books published by Allen & Unwin.

Bibliography

  • {{cite book |author=Mic Looby| year=2018| title=Black Snake| publisher=Affirm Press| location=Australia | isbn=978-1-9255849-5-0 }}
  • {{cite book |author=Mic Looby| year=2009| title=Paradise Updated| publisher=Affirm Press| location=Australia | isbn=978-0-9803746-6-7 }}
  • {{cite book |author=Heather Catchpole and Vanessa Woods| year=2007| title=It's True! Pirates Ate Rats| publisher=Allen & Unwin| location=Australia | isbn=978-1-74114-607-3 }}
  • {{cite book |author=Rick Wilkinson| year=2004|title=It's True! Animals Are Electrifying| publisher=Allen & Unwin | location=Australia | isbn=978-1-74114-343-0 }}
  • {{cite book | year=2003| title=It's True! Frogs Are Cannibals| publisher=Allen & Unwin| location=Australia | isbn=1-74114-271-7 }}

Further reading

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090917231734/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26045074-5002031,00.html Article from The Australian by Mic Looby, on baldness and travel (2009)]
  • [http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/wake-up-folks-and-give-jeff-the-flick-20090207-80ey.html Article from The Age by Mic Looby, on children's music (2009)]
  • [http://www.theage.com.au/national/those-lazy-sunny-days-that-seemed-to-last-forever-20090119-7kub.html Article from The Age by Mic Looby, on memories of summer (2009)]