Meet Charise Mericle Harper and Rory Lucey, creators of Bad Sister! What initially drew you to comics? Charise: My father is French, and his mother, my grandmother did not speak English. She lived with us for six months every year, so it wasn't long before my brother and I became fluent in French. [...]
Meet Mike Holmes, creator of My Own World! What initially drew you to comics? I always loved the potential of comics - that you weren't limited by budget or resources one needs to present a visual story in a different medium, like film. If you can imagine it, you can make your dreams come [...]
Meet Remy Lai, creator of Pawcasso! What initially drew you to comics? Comics were the first books I read as a child. My parents placed no restrictions on the number and kinds of books my siblings and I read, which I suspect was the least costly and most effective way to keep five kids quiet. I guess [...]
Meet Dave Roman, creator of the Astronaut Academy series! What initially drew you to comics? The drawings, they drew me to comics! I was a drawer who filled his drawer . . . with drawings! As a kid, I'd copy the art from Garfield, The Far Side, and Groo the Wanderer, and those eventually morphed into my own [...]
Meet Dan & Jason, creators of Blue, Barry & Pancakes! What initially drew you to comics? We've always loved comics! We absolutely love the form and everything it has to offer - words, pictures, pacing, and design. But what really makes comics special for us is that feeling when you sit down with a great [...]
Meet Natalie Andrewson, illustrator and adapter of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King! What initially drew you to comics? Well, it took me a long time to learn drawing comics was actually something I could do (and love) with my skills but I always enjoyed drawing stories and making up worlds for my characters to live [...]
Meet Natalie Riess and Sara Goetter, creators of Dungeon Critters! What initially drew you to comics? Natalie: I was curious about comics as a tween (my older sister was reading a ton of manga at the time) and I was really into fantasy stuff so I picked up a copy of the webcomic Inverloch. This [...]
Meet Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan, creators of Welcome to the New World! What initially drew you to comics? Michael: I discovered the Tintin comics by Herge in our school library when I was in third grade. They really inspired me! I'd never seen long-form comics like that - the term graphic novel wasn't used [...]
Meet Kiku Hughes, author of Displacement! Kiku Hughes is a cartoonist and illustrator based in the Seattle area. Her work has been featured in Beyond Anthology volumes 1 and 2, Short Box #6 and the Alloy Anthology. She creates stories about identity, queer romance and compassionate sci-fi. Displacement is her first graphic novel, and it is [...]
Meet Scott Sava, author of Animal Crackers! Can you tell us about the book to movie adaptation of Animal Crackers? What was it like seeing the film come to life with such incredible actors voicing your characters? It was amazing! Everything was a first for me. I flew to London to meet Ian McKellen, [...]
