Right now I have two cats, Kiku and Albie! You can often find pictures of them on my instagram. When I was growing up my family had goldfish, hamsters, a chameleon, a parakeet, a cockatiel, a snake (yuck!) and eventually a cat. Ghosts is realistic fiction with a supernatural flavor. Drama and the BSC graphic novels are considered realistic fiction and slice-of-life. There are many genres WITHIN graphic novels! Smile, Sisters, and Guts are considered autobiography and memoir, and sometimes non-fiction. Please note that graphic novels are a format and a medium, but not a genre. Please see my Essay: How Do You Make a Graphic Novel? What genre are your books? Mostly from my own life, but the answer is more complex than just that! Please see my Essay: Where Do You Get Your Inspiration? How do you make a graphic novel? Here are some links to essays I’ve written that answer some of my most commonly asked questions, followed by a Homework Help section!Įssay: Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?Įssay: Writing From Life (The Good and the Bad)Įssay: How Did You Develop Your Art Style?Įssay: How Do You Make a Graphic Novel (and, Why Do They Take So Long?) Unfortunately I don’t have time for individual requests of this nature. Please note that I am on an event break for most of 2020 as I work on my next book! Can I interview you for a class project/homework/school paper/author study? Maybe! Please see my Contact Page for more information. Will you come speak at my school/library/conference/convention/company picnic? Serious queries should go through my agent, Judy Hansen. I'm pretty solidly busy until at least 2022, but maybe someday. I wrote all about the tools I use in this essay and it contains lots of pictures and examples! Are you interested in collaborating on graphic novels in the future? My finished pages are scanned into a computer, and panel borders, lettering, and colors are all added digitally. 2 Windsor & Newton sable brush, and erase the pencil lines with a Staedtler Mars plastic eraser. Finally, I ink over the penciled drawings with Dr. Over that, I pencil each panel pretty tightly with a Papermate #2 graphite pencil. I sketch out all my pages on plain 8.5 x 11 paper, and then create a full-sized version of those sketches on Bristol board, using a Col-erase light blue colored pencil. You can join a writers' community online, or at your school or library, though! What do you use to make your comics? I've only got so many hours in a day, and I devote most of them to working on my own books and projects. Would you be willing to read my story/comic/essay/novel? Sure! Here is my Essay: Advice for Budding Cartoonists. Those know know you best will know the best way to help! I'd like to be an author/cartoonist/illustrator. If you're being bullied by kids at school, or you're worried about a friend's behavior, or something is really bothering you, it's best to talk to an adult you know and trust. I wish I could, but I'm really not in a position to do that. Can you give me some advice on a personal issue? If there is ever news on this front, you can bet I'll announce it here on my site! Can I see some pictures of you when you were a kid? If a film or television studio wants to purchase the rights to make any of my books into a TV show or a movie, they are welcome to do so, but that means entering a crazy Hollywood process that I would have very little to do with. You should make a Smile movie! Are they making a Smile movie? What about a Drama movie? Check out my Events Page for a list of upcoming events. If you'd like to order a signed copy of my books through the mail, my local independent bookstore Green Apple Books would be happy to ship them to you! Or, you can try to catch me at a public appearance. Okay, I want to buy your book! Can you sign it? I would recommend that you ask your school or public library to order my books if they don't already have them in stock. Can you send me a free book?īelieve it or not, authors don't usually have extra copies of their books lying around! Books cost me money, too, and other people buying my books is how I make my living. I started making my own comic strips around the same time, and realized I liked putting pictures and words together to tell stories. My favorites were Calvin and Hobbes and For Better or For Worse. I started reading the funnies in my local newspaper, The San Francisco Chronicle, when I was nine. When did you start reading comics? Did you always want to make them?
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