My New Book: Fomo the Screen Zombie Gets a Snack
Screen Time Tales Vol. 2 Lives!
Happy Halloween! I’m positively spooked to announce that today marks the birth of my second Screen Time Tales picture book: Fomo the Screen Zombie Gets a Snack.
Fomo is a kiddo so glued to his gizmo, he barely notices the world around him. Young readers follow hungry Fomo as he stumbles along on a hapless quest for snacks, oblivious to all the yummy, braintastic munchies on tap at every turn. Jam-packed with silly easter eggs, Fomo’s story lampoons our device-obsessed world using subversive, non-preachy parody to help tame the proverbial screen time beast!
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I first started sketching Fomo three long years ago after my wonderful illustrator daughter inspired me to resume my long-neglected youthful dalliance with cartooning. And since you’re wondering, NO, I did not use AI (it would look a lot less janky if I had), but YES, I did draw much of it on a screen—which further confirms my status as an insufferably shameless hypocrite. Anyhoo, the result is a kind of undead “Mr. Magoo” for the iPad era, a satirical tale for screen-zoned kids and the grownups who love them. I hope you and yours enjoy it!
- John Allen Wooden
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Screen Time Tales is a series of irreverent and, um, ever-so-slightly weird picture books that snort-laugh through the noise of our excruciatingly online era. These stories don’t preach—they seek to spark conversations about screen time and social media in a way that’s playfully subversive and genuinely fun to read aloud. Huzzah!
About John Allen Wooden:
Howdy. I’m a satirist, creative director, and dad based in Los Angeles. Having done hard time in big online media, ad agencies, late night TV, politics, and parenting, I created Epostasy as my little lab for gleefully dismembering all those tediously self-important things. Check out my tech-skeptical kids book series, Screen Time Tales, along with other projects at johnallenwooden.com