test heading What initially drew you to comics? I was a huge fantasy & sci-fi fan growing up in the 70s. Star Trek, Batman, Superman, The Hulk, Wonder Woman, Lost In Space, Star Wars, and the animated Lord of the Rings were all on TV or in the theaters. We had all those great Ray [...]
test heading What initially drew you to comics? Jeannette: I find comics to be a relatively more accessible way for creators online to share their stories. We just happened to be extremely lucky to get Blackwater published as a graphic novel. I love the level of control you have when making comics as well. Ren: [...]
test heading What initially drew you to comics? I didn’t read a lot of comic books as a kid, but I loved the daily comic strips in the paper. I was also a huge fan of heavily illustrated epistolary journal or letter-style books, like the Amelia’s Notebook series or Kate Klise’s Regarding the Fountain—I loved [...]
test heading What initially drew you to comics? I've always been interested in comics since I was a little kid. I read a lot of newspaper comics like Calvin and Hobbes, Garfield, Farside, and Foxtrot. In fact, my first comic at age 6, I think was a thinly-veiled rip-off of Garfield called "Grfeld." I read [...]
Meet Hope Larson, creator of All My Friends! What initially drew you to comics? As a kid, I was big on reading and making up stories, but I loved drawing, too. Over the years I went back and forth between seeing myself as a writer and as an artist, and eventually, I managed to combine [...]
Meet Alina Chau, creator of Marshmallow & Jordan! What initially drew you to comics? Growing up, I loved reading comics. I am from Hong Kong, so we had Japanese manga, European comics, and popular American comics. I always looked forward to Sunday newspaper comic strips, like Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts. At the end of [...]
Meet Misako Rocks!, creator of Bounce Back! What initially drew you to comics? While I was working at a Children Museum in Wisconsin, I met a boy who showed me Dragon Ball Z, which was translated in English. He told me how popular manga had become. To be honest, I was trying to become a [...]
Meet Damian Alexander, creator of Other Boys! What initially drew you to comics? I think what really drew me to comics was being able to tell a story visually. I used to write traditional prose a lot more, but I always found myself frustrated because I couldn’t directly show readers what I wanted them to [...]
Meet Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham, creators of Friends Forever! What initially drew you to comics? Shannon Hale: I didn’t grow up reading comics. I simply didn’t have access to them as a kid. But I always looked forward to the comic strips in the Sunday newspaper. Later my husband Dean introduced me to the [...]
Meet Jordan Morris and Sarah Morgan, creators of Bubble! What initially drew you to graphic novels? Jordan: I love how adventurous they can be with storytelling. I think they have more license to play with genre in fun and interesting ways. The audience is probably very pop-culture savvy so you can mash up comedy/sci-fi/romance/whatever else [...]
