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Jun 2, 20223 min read
An Interview with Author and Artist Tyler Page
1. Please tell us about the inspiration/general background of Button Pusher. So BUTTON PUSHER was a direct response and follow-up to my...
jddehartwriting
May 31, 20223 min read
An Interview with Author Kate Hannigan
1. What drew you to begin telling stories in comics form? When I'm on school visits with a classroom, I always tell students that most...
jddehartwriting
May 20, 20224 min read
An Interview with Comics Educator Michael Gianfrancesco
Jason: Thank you for joining me and talking with me. I teach with comics in the classroom and continue to do that. It’s good to a kindred...
jddehartwriting
Apr 14, 20222 min read
An Interview with Eduardo Paj
1. Please tell us about your creative process. When I am reading a script, I start imagining the characters and the places where they...
jddehartwriting
Apr 12, 20221 min read
Three Questions with Darcy Miller
1. Please tell us about what draws you to write and create. Writing for kids is so much fun because the sky is the limit, as far as their...
jddehartwriting
Apr 12, 20224 min read
An Interview with Shveta Miller
1. What led you to comics? Teaching language arts at the high school level, I created a curriculum that opened up the world of "English"...
jddehartwriting
Apr 7, 20221 min read
An Interview with Arthur Slade
1. What inspires your authorship? For me it’s an endless desire to create new stories and find out how they end. Even after over thirty...
jddehartwriting
Apr 6, 20222 min read
An Interview with John Patrick Green
1. What is your author/creator origin story? When I was a little kid, in elementary school, I had really bad asthma and allergies, which...
jddehartwriting
Apr 2, 20222 min read
An Interview with Gordon Korman
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? My...
jddehartwriting
Mar 31, 20221 min read
An Interview with Ariel Bordeaux
1. Please tell us about your path to comics. I got hooked on underground and alternative comics in high school, and in art school...
jddehartwriting
Mar 30, 20222 min read
An Interview with Ben Towle
1. Please tell us your author/comics origin story. I've been a comics reader as long as I can remember. Comics were a bit more ubiquitous...
jddehartwriting
Mar 30, 20224 min read
An Interview with Jason Viola
1. How did you find your way to comics? When I was a kid, as young as I can remember, I loved reading and drawing comics. I made up a...
jddehartwriting
Mar 26, 20222 min read
An Interview with Farah Zaman
1. What inspires your authorship? It pretty much began like that of most authors—being a voracious reader. From a young age, I fell in...
jddehartwriting
Mar 26, 20224 min read
An Interview with Jim Ottaviani
1. Please tell us about your creative process, including your research. I start with ideas, like everybody else, and then spend a lot of...
jddehartwriting
Mar 25, 20223 min read
Literacy Perspectives with Gravity Goldberg
1. If you could go back and talk to yourself as a young teacher, what is one piece of advice you might offer? As a beginning teacher I...
jddehartwriting
Mar 23, 20223 min read
An Interview with A.J. Hartley
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...
jddehartwriting
Mar 22, 20222 min read
An Interview with MariNaomi
1. Please tell us your author/comics origin story. I always wanted to be a novelist when I was a kid. When I was a teen, I got really...
jddehartwriting
Mar 22, 20221 min read
An Interview with Author Sarah Allen
1. What inspires your work? Creatively, I'm always inspired by the work of others. Amazing books, artwork, music, TV shows, musicals--all...
jddehartwriting
Mar 20, 20222 min read
An Interview with Dominique Duong
Dominique Duong is an illustrator and comic artist working in London, UK. Since her career began, her work has been published by...
jddehartwriting
Mar 20, 20222 min read
An Interview with Bill Konigsberg
1. What inspires your authorship? I'd say two things inspire my writing: one is an undying urge to figure out the truth about something....
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