An Interview with author Jolene Perry
What initially drew you to write for young people? I was a middle and high school teacher, so that’s what drew me initially. Later, it...
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Jul 19, 20222 min read
An Interview with comics creator Victor Santos
1. What initially drew you to comics? My youngest uncle was a comic collector and I used to enter his room when I was a child visiting my...
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Jul 19, 20222 min read
An Interview with author Barbara Dee
1. What initially drew you to write for upper elementary/middle school readers? I’ve always thought this was such a complicated age. In...
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Jul 18, 20223 min read
An Interview with author and artist Marnie Galloway
1. What initially drew you to comics? I came to comics a little sideways, almost by process of elimination. I have always drawn, keeping...
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Jul 18, 20224 min read
An Interview with author Frank Morelli
1. What initially drew you to write for young readers? I've been teaching in the middle school classroom for the past twenty years, so...
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Jul 17, 20222 min read
An Interview with Ariel Medel
1. What initially drew you to the comics medium? The art and the stories. I’ve always felt attracted by movies in the sci-fi, fantasy,...
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Jul 16, 20225 min read
An Interview with comics creator Brandon Montclare
1. What drew you to comics? When I was a kid I liked falling into a comic book world and then moving around inside it. Obviously you...
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Jul 16, 20224 min read
An Interview with author Dirk Manning
What initially drew you to comics? I’ve always been a voracious reader and a fan of art and animation (my mom is an artist, so that...
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Jul 15, 20224 min read
An Interview with author and artist Wes Molebash
1. What initially drew you to comics? Like many cartoonists my age, the Calvin and Hobbes treasuries were incredibly influential. I've...
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Jul 14, 20226 min read
An Interview with author and artist Steve Barr
1. What initially drew you to comics? I’ve always loved every form of cartoons, from animation to printed books. I loved watching...
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Jul 14, 20224 min read
An Interview with author Kate Hoefler
What inspires you to write for young readers? I admire them. They’re important, imaginative people, and yet they have such little agency...
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Jul 13, 20221 min read
An Interview with artist Donny Hadiwidjaja
1. What initially drew you into comics? When I was kid, I was a big fan of superheroes comics. They made me love drawing/mimicking the...
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Jul 13, 20224 min read
An Interview with author Hillora Lang
1. What draws you to the fantasy genre? As an autistic person, the real world never held much interest for me. I didn't understand it,...
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Jul 12, 20224 min read
An Interview with comics creator Don Nguyen
Image from https://mobile.twitter.com/nguyeningit 1. What initially drew you to comics? My mom used to take me to the library when she...
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Jul 12, 20222 min read
An Interview with artist Ángel Unzueta
1. What got you interested in making comics? Well, I have been reading comics since I was a child, and good drawing skills and needing to...
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Jul 12, 20221 min read
An Interview with author and artist Paul Karasik
Image from paulkarasikcomics.com 1. What initially drew you to comics? I grew up in a comics-friendly house. We got two daily papers that...
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Jul 10, 20222 min read
An Interview with author and artist Ronald Ferdinand
1. What initially drew you to comics? As a kid in the 50’s and 60’s, my life was Hanna-Barbera Cartoons (Top Cat, Flintstones, etc...)...
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Jul 9, 20222 min read
An Interview with author and artist Chris Grine
1. What initially drew you to comics? I've always enjoyed storytelling and creating characters and worlds. Comics became a great way for...
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Jul 9, 20224 min read
An Interview with author Scott Fogg
1. What initially drew you to comics? What has always drawn me to comics is that, more than other medium, is the feeling that anything...
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Jul 9, 20222 min read
An Interview with author Sabina Khan
1. What has drawn you to write for youth? Growing up in Bangladesh I could only ever read stories that centered white characters. They...
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