An Interview with author and artist Tom Angleberger
1. What fills your creative wellspring? Books, books, books!!! Also, TV, movies, games and stuff. Combine any of the things you enjoy...
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Jun 29, 20225 min read
An Interview with author and artist Mike Becker
1. What initially drew you to comics? My go-to answer is Batman: The Animated series, stretching as far back as first grade. I had...
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Jun 28, 20221 min read
An interview with artist Rob Retiano
1. What initially drew you to comics? I was first introduced to comics from my cousin, but it was thanks to my third grade teacher who...
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Jun 28, 20221 min read
An Interview with author Jason Starr
1. As a literacy prof, I’m always curious about how people come to be readers and writers. Can you share some of your journey with us? I...
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Jun 28, 20223 min read
An Interview with author Margaret Peterson Haddix
1. What inspired you to write for young readers? With the first few books I wrote for kids, I thought it was just that I’d fallen in love...
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Jun 28, 20222 min read
An Interview with author Andrea Wang
1. What draws you to write for young readers? I have wanted to be an author since I was in third grade, but it wasn't until I had my own...
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Jun 27, 20223 min read
An Interview with author Tara Dairman
1. What initially drew you to write for young readers? Quite simply, it was a love for the books I grew up reading—the ones that turned...
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Jun 26, 20223 min read
An Interview with author Jessica Kim
1. What draws you to write for young people? A lot of the themes I wanted to write about centered on identity and looking back, that...
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Jun 25, 20222 min read
Interview with artist Dean Rankine
1. What initially drew you to comics? Ha! "Drew you" I love a pun These days I would've been diagnosed with some kind of neuro-divergence...
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Jun 25, 20222 min read
An Interview with author Elizabeth Verdick
1. What inspires you to write for young readers? I'm inspired by children's literature of all kinds: picture books, Early Readers,...
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Jun 25, 20222 min read
An Interview with Author Lynne Kelly
1. Please tell us what inspired your work in Song for a Whale (as well as any future work you’d like to share about). It was the...
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Jun 25, 20223 min read
An Interview with author Stephanie Kuehn
Image from GirlsLife.com. 1. Please tell us about your upcoming book, We Weren't Looking to be Found. It’s a story about two teenage...
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Jun 24, 20222 min read
An Interview with comics creator Jonathan Roth
1. What initially drew you to comics? Like many kids back in the pre-internet, prehistoric era of the 1970s, I honed my reading skills...
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Jun 23, 20221 min read
An Interview with author and illustrator Javaka Steptoe
1. What inspires you to write and create for young people? --My first inspiration was my father, John Steptoe, also an award-winning...
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Jun 23, 20222 min read
An Interview with Author and Artist Kirk Scroggs
1. What drew you to comics? I like your wording there! My dad was an excellent amateur cartoonist and my mom had a wild sense of humor...
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Jun 23, 20223 min read
An Interview with Author Sara Zarr
1. Please tell us about your latest work, A Song Called Home, and any future works you’d like to share about. A Song Called Home is the...
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Jun 22, 20222 min read
An Interview with Author and Artist Jarrett J. Krosoczka
1. You have been a pioneer in the pandemic for creative digital connections - what inspired you to take this role? Thanks! It was a...
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Jun 22, 20221 min read
An Interview with Author and Artist Erik Larsen
1. What first drew you to comics? My dad bought comics when he was a kid and I grew up with his wonderful collection of Golden Age comic...
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Jun 21, 20223 min read
An Interview with author and artist Ryan Estrada
Image from Twitter 1. What draws you to write for young readers and adolescents? The target audience of every book I write is, well, me!...
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Jun 21, 20223 min read
An Interview with artist Ty Templeton
1. What drew you to comics? Didn't have to be "drawn" there, I was there pretty well since birth. My dad was a cartoonist as a young...
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