However, one day this young hero gets dragged to the evil villains lair…where he gets (gulp) a hair cut! With his powers zapped (or rather cut off) he isn’t sure he can do anything, let alone face his friends again. He also has four “super” friends who also all have special powers. This particular young hero gets his power from his hair…and he has quite a bit of it. Superheroes get their power from somewhere. Rocco lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Aileen and their daughter, Alaya.

and Paul Allen‘s Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. Rocco has worked with computer graphics pioneer Robert Abel, the creator of some of the first CGI commercials and special effects, and contributed to several museum projects including Newseum in Washington D.C. For Walt Disney Imagineering, he designed attractions at Disney’s Epcot and served as art director for DisneyQuest, a virtual reality theme park in Downtown Disney. At Dreamworks, Rocco was the pre-production art director on the top-grossing animated film Shrek. Me with samFor many years Rocco has been an art director in the entertainment industry, both in the US and abroad.

Most recently, Rocco illustrated the fantasy fairy tale, The Flint Heart, written by Katherine Paterson and her husband, John. Rocco also illustrated Whoopi Goldberg‘s Alice and the covers for Rick Riordan‘s multi-million copy internationally bestselling series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Kane Chronicles, and The Heroes of Olympus. He is the author of four acclaimed books for children: Wolf! Wolf!, winner of the Borders Original Voices Award for best picture book Moonpowder, part of the Original Art Show at the Society of Illustrators Fu Finds the Way, and Blackout, a New York Times Best Book of the Year and winner of a 2012 Caldecott Honor. Rocco studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design and School of Visual Arts in New York City.

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