JACKO
Keeper of Halloween
The Static drained the color and the sound right off the block. The pumpkins went dark and everybody hid. Jacko is flipping the fright back into a party, and he can’t do it without your kid.
Ages 8+ · 15 scenes to color · 8.5″ × 11″ · Paperback
The page that makes this different
Your kid is
in the book.
“You’re a Lil Homie too, grab a crayon, jump in!”
On page 9 Jacko stops, points straight out of the page, and drafts the reader into the crew. Every book in the series does it. The reader isn’t watching the story. They’re the one who finishes it.
What the Static does
It takes the color.
You put it back.
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The Static isn’t a person. It’s what’s left when the color and the sound get taken out of a day. It has no face, and it has never made a single thing in its life. That’s exactly why it loses.
It never touches a kid on the page.
What the Holiday Cypher is
Nine holidays. Eleven heroes.
One villain.
The Keepers
Every holiday has one. Saint Nick has Christmas. Big Mama has Thanksgiving. Jacko has Halloween. They’re the ones who keep the day from going quiet.
The Static
It drains the color and the sound out of a holiday. It can only take. It can’t make anything, and that’s how you beat it: you make something.
The Crew, and you
Four kids who still hear the beat when everybody else has gone quiet. Cami carries the big crayon. And there’s one more seat in the circle.
Look inside
Fifteen pages. Here’s four.
Bold outlines, big open shapes, one scene per page. Built for crayons and markers, not colored pencils. And hair is drawn as strands and sections with white interiors, so a kid can actually color their own afro, puffs, twists or braids. Most coloring books get that wrong.
The Cypher Calendar
One holiday at a time,
all year long.
The finale
The Full Cypher
When every holiday has its color back, the whole crew shows up at once. Saint Nick, Big Mama, Free, Midnight and everybody else, in one last circle. Coming when the series is done.
Free coloring pages
Print something
tonight.
Two pages from JACKO, free, no email needed. Or get the five-page pack, including page 9, the one where he points at you.
No email needed. Print them tonight.
For the grown-ups
Everything you’d want to ask.
Is this too scary for my 8-year-old?
It’s fun-scary, not scary-scary. Grinning pumpkins, a goofy monster, a shadow that turns silly. The Static has no face and never touches a child on the page. That’s a production rule, not a promise we made up for the website. No gore, no blood, no skulls.
Can I read it to a younger kid?
Yes. Every page has a four-line rhyming verse built to be read out loud. The 8+ on the cover is about the coloring detail, not the story.
Can I print the free pages for my class?
Yes. The free pages are yours to print for your own family or your own classroom.
Is the paper single-sided?
Yes. Every design has a blank back, so markers don’t bleed through onto the next scene.
When do the other books come out?
Saint Nick is next. We’ll email the list the day it’s ready. We don’t publish dates we can’t keep.