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@goraina created 3 downloadable, color-able images of her characters –including Cat and Maya from GHOSTS, Raina from SMILE, Justin, Callie, and Jesse from DRAMA – for the #kidlitsafetypins movement. Share away!
"Here are some images I created for the Kidlit Safety Pins movement! Feel free to download and print or color these pictures. The idea of the safety pin symbol is to let people know that they are safe, loved, and accepted by the pin's wearer. By sharing these images of my characters, I want my readers to know that they are safe with me. #kidlitsafetypins"
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My next book will be called…GHOSTS!!! ✨"Eleven-year-old Catrina and her family are moving to the small coastal town of Bahía de la Luna because her younger sister, Maya, is sick. Cat isn't happy about leaving her friends, but she tries not to complain because she knows Maya will benefit from the clean, cool air that blows in from the sea. As the girls settle in, they learn there's something a little spooky about their new town …" #ghosts #fall2016 #scholasticgraphix #graphix #graphicnovels #newbook #rainatelgemeier #goraina #scholastic #SDCC #sdcc2015
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yaytime:
The KiDS READ COMICS festival at the Ann Arbor District Library is next weekend. I'll so be there! So will Faith Erin Hicks, Zac Gorman, Raina Telgemeier, Kean Soo, Tory Woollcott, Ruth McNally Barshaw, MC Frontalot, Chris Giarrusso, Chris Duffy, Rafael Rosado, Zack Giallongo, Lee Cherolis, Courtney Hahn, Carolyn Nowak, Jay P. Fosgitt, & so many more! Plus there will be the Kids Comics Revolution Awards held on Sunday with musical guests The Shake Ups in Ponyville!
Kids Read Comics!!! Coming to an Ann Arbor near you…
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drinkanddrawlikealady:
Thank you so much to everyone who joined us last Friday for another wonderful Drink & Draw Like a Lady!
Enjoy these fantastic photos from our event photographer Lisa Aurigemma. She has even more over on her DDLL Flickr album. Tea has also posted some of the drawings that were made at the party on the Facebook event page. Feel free to tag yours if you see them!
Thank you to everyone who made the event a success, especially Susan at The Productive for letting us use her co-working space for the party, Work Made for Hire who helped sponsor the event, Savannah Zambrano who designed the flyer, Clare DeZutti who designed the stickers and also the chalk welcome sign, everyone who brought food, drink, donations, helped set up and stayed late to break down the event.
And thank you to everyone who came to the party! We don't have a final count, but it was more than last year and we had 229 people RSVP to the Facebook event page. Seeing this many women who love comics in one room makes our hearts grow three sizes. See you all next year!
-Alisa, Tea and Raina
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Nuts and bolts stuff. Absolutely applies to making comics, too.
(Source: gcastellano.com)
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graphixbooks:
Scary big news!
Four Goosebumps Graphix tales by master of horror R. L. Stine are being adapted into full-color comics and feature a brand-new Slappy story by bestselling author Dave Roman.
The talented Dave Roman creates the horrifying drawings for "The Night of the Living Dummy," the origin story about that most evil of all ventriloquist dummies, Slappy!
In "A Shocker on Shock Street," Jamie Tolagson captures the chilling tale of a brother and sister doing their dream job: testing rides in a movie studio theme park, where the special effects are REALLY special.
With his shadowy illustrations, Gabriel Hernandez creates the perfect atmosphere in "The Werewolf of Fever Swamp," a spooky story about a boy and his dog who go sniffing around in a lonely swamp … and wish they hadn't.
Ted Naifeh is at his creepy best in "Ghost Beach," a scary ghost story about a brother and sister who investigate a local legend and discover a terrible secret about their family.
Goosebumps: Slappy's Tales of Horror will be coming out in Fall 2015!
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rebeccamock:
Transportation
Capital New York MagazineI did the cover for this month's issue of Capital Magazine. I know very well how trying to commute on the subway after a blizzard is…a challenge. I used a local Brooklyn subway station for reference, and got a chance to draw figures into the piece, which I don't often get to do outside of my comics. Thanks AD Peter Lettre!
Rebecca nails it, as always.
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*EDIT* Can anyone tell my why my comics ALWAYS look so lousy on Tumblr? It never seems to matter what file size I upload. Click through for crisper versions.
My 2015 Hourly Comic Day comics. Some of these were done in a moving car. All were done straight-to-Sharpie in a notebook given to me by a Naperville middle school last fall with a parade of elephants along the bottom page trim.
Yesterday I was anticipating this morning's ALA Youth Media Awards, and while I was sure that SISTERS wasn't going to win anything, I was holding out hope for some of my friends' books, specifically EL DEAFO by Cece Bell. And we woke up today to learn that it did indeed receive a Newbery Honor Award–the most distinguished award in the children's book industry, and the first time a graphic novel has ever done so. I didn't want to name-drop in the comic for fear of jinxing it, but that's the book I was thinking about at 9:50pm last night.
Today also happens to be the 5-year anniversary of SMILE in print. I was too busy making noise about El Deafo on Twitter to give it much thought, but Cece herself has told me that it was only after she read Smile that she decided to tell her story in graphic novel format. I could not be more proud or happy for her, and if I have contributed in some small way to moving both the worlds of comics and children's literature forward, that's all the honor I need.
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metteivieharrison:
People ask writers all the time where they get their ideas. This isn't the most important question about being a writer, in my opinion. The real difficulty in being a writer is putting yourself on the line in a way that other people never do, over and over again. Opening yourself up to the…
This, this this. One hundred times this.
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Whoa, so…every year, The Beat, which has long been my favorite comics news source, asks folks across the industry to cast their vote for the Person of the Year, defined as "the most important person, someone who had the biggest impact, an innovator, someone who set the pace, or had a banner year creatively" in comics.
This year, I won.
I can certainly concede that my 2014 was incredible, and felt like it built in intensity with each passing month. But to round it out with this honor is astounding…my career feels like it's pretty swell to me personally, but being recognized by my peers is on a whole other level of awesome.
I've loved comics for a long time. From the day I discovered them as a kid, there's been little else I've been so passionate about, and nothing else I wanted to do more. I've been fortunate to be able to make work I care about, and to have such great readers along the way, as well as a community of people that supports me and cheers me on.
So, thank you!
Congratulations to all the other people nominated for the PotY, too — smart, talented, hard-working people who deserve just as much (if not more) credit as I do.
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Ending the year on a high note: the Wall Street Journal did a giant piece on the New Wave of Graphic Novels, which features a big ol' interview with yours truly and an amazing portrait by brilliant photographer Sasha Maslov. Please head over to goraina.com for a link to the article, which (among other things) gives a tiny bit of information about my NEXT graphic novel! Hope you all have a happy new year, and a brilliant and prosperous 2015.
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Merry Sis-mas! Hope you have a happy holiday. #sisters #sismas
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jeschas-deactivated20150413 asked: would you rather readers buy your book from amazon or a bookstore? i've heard that buying books off amazon affects the amount of money that goes to the author, and i wanted to make sure i'm doing whatever helps the author most.
maggie-stiefvater-deactivated20:
This is a really revoltingly nice question, so first of all, thank you for asking it.
Secondly, it's true, I do get a different amount of money depending on where and how a book is sold. I get a higher amount for a hardcover, for instance, than a paperback, and I get a higher royalty rate if a book's bought for full price at an independent bookstore than at a deep discount in a place like Walmart. I even sometimes get a different rate if the book is on a cheap daily discount, like The Raven Boys is today at Amazon (but not always)(it's complicated) or sold at a book fair. And of course if you buy a used book, I don't get a cut, but the environment nods its head approvingly, and who can be sad about that? The difference in my cut can range from two bucks to a couple cents difference.
BUT. Thirdly: I would rather you didn't think about this when you were buying my books. I absolutely love readers who consider the best place to get a book, not just the cheapest. "Best" is a moving target, though, and that's not as simple as being a place that puts the most in my pocket. For me, "best" is a place that helps all sorts of books, not just mine. Ideally, "best" is also a place that does business responsibly. But the bottom line is that "best" is a place that helps you, the reader, to find books that you love in a way that works in your life.
So, sometimes that means paying full price at a local independent bookstore, because the bookseller there knows how to find the books you love and carries titles you wouldn't have seen otherwise (and glowing because you're supporting local economy). Sometimes it means buying it on sale on Amazon, because $3 is what you have to spend on books right now, and Raven Boys is on sale (even though you've heard whispers about business practices that make you raise your left eyebrow). Sometimes it means hoofing it to the Barnes & Noble because you have a gift card (and who doesn't love gift cards? Also they have coffee). Sometimes it means buying everything on audiobook, because if you don't read a book when you commute, you don't get to read any books at all.
Stiefvater says: I'm cool with any of these options. If you're informed, and you're making your buying decision with your eyes wide open, I don't judge you for choosing one over the other. I know where I buy books, but I won't ask you to buy books based upon my principles or on how much I get.
All I ask is that you pay for my books, wherever you buy them. Because those numbers — books sold — are the numbers that influence how a publisher supports a series. Those are the ones that let me (and other authors) do what they're doing.
Fourthly (fourthly? Probably), thank you for thinking about where your money goes. I really appreciate it. I'll do my best to keep writing books worth your care.
I wholeheartedly agree with every bit of this.
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