It’s a screamer of goal for this winning collaboration between Alex Joyce and Aleksei Bitskoff.
Grab your football boots and head to the sidelines, it’s time to take on the intergalactic match of a lifetime!
Out this month, in good time for the FIFA World Cup, The Galaxy World Cup, written by Alan Joyce and illustrated by our very own Aleksei Bitskoff, blasts onto bookshelves courtesy of Chicken House Books. This rip-roaring romp of a read, with a brilliantly bonkers cover illustrations celebrates friendship and team spirit in bucket loads, even when you're spectacularly unqualified.
When aliens mistake schoolboy Nick and his fellow misfits for the world’s greatest football players, they're zapped across the Milky Way to compete in the biggest intergalactic football tournament in the universe... against REAL ALIENS. The only problem?
They are NOT the greatest football players on Earth – they’re the WORST! But if they want to go home, they’ll have to lace up their boots and try to actually score a goal . . .
With hilarious chapter “headers” (pun intended) by Aleksei throughout and a back cover that is absolutely teeming with weird and wonderful alien lifeforms. This side-splitting wacky story will appeal to ages 7-11 and any football fans! During half time why not grab a slice of orange from the coach and read an extract HERE and make sure you enjoy the full match by purchasing a copy of the book HERE.
Aleksei has an innate skill for creating believable engaging characters and dropping them into believable and totally unbelievable situations alike. His intuitive sense of comedy has made him a go-to creative for all manner of projects across a broad range of publishing house.
As a lifelong doodler Aleksei is well travelled and very familiar with drawing inspiration (quite literally) from his surroundings and the characters he meets in everyday life. Based in Surrey, Aleksei takes great pleasure in incorporating his passion for games and puzzles into his work, which often rewards eagle-eyed readers with clever visual details.
You can find Aleksei on Instagram or explore his brilliant online portfolio HERE.
If you are interested in collaborating with Aleksei please drop us a line by emailing info@arenaillustration.com, we would be delighted to talk you through his portfolio.
