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)]
External links
- [http://affirmpress.com.au/publishing/black-snake/ Black Snake at Affirm Press]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090913234440/http://www.affirmpress.com.au/books.aspx?id=8 Paradise Updated at Affirm Press]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090913100123/http://itstrue.com.au/bios.asp Mic Looby Bio – It's True Books]
- [http://hackpacker.blogspot.com/2009/10/looking-for-looby-mic-looby-profile.html Looking for Looby: a profile]
- [http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/boycotting-burma-not-so-simple-20090930-gcon.html Case for boycotting Burma is too simplistic]
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Category:21st-century Australian novelists
Category:Australian satirical novelists
Category:Australian children's book illustrators
Category:Australian columnists
Category:Australian male novelists
Category:Writers from Victoria (state)
Category:21st-century Australian male writers
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