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Raina Telgemeier Is the Most Important Comic Creator of the Current Age

Why not state the obvious? Brian Hibbs’s yearly BookScan sales review column is now up, looking back at the top-selling graphic novels of 2016 through the bookstore market. The obvious fact is this: of the top seven, six are by Raina Telgemeier (and the seventh, Dork Diaries, isn’t a comic). Between her illustrated memoirs, her fiction, and her Baby-Sitters Club adaptations (reissued recently in color), she has sold over 1.3 million books in just the last year. As Hibbs says, […]

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Raina Telgemeier Announces Next Book

Raina Telgemeier is arguably the most important comic author of the modern era, with her books Smile, Sisters, and Drama placing on the graphic novels bestseller list for three years running. She’s created classics for entire generations of young readers and demonstrated that comics for girls can be hugely successful. Her next book, Ghosts, will be published by Graphic in fall 2016, as her other works were, and it will be fiction, as Drama was, but with the emphasis on […]

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Raina Telgemeier’s Baby-Sitters Club Returns in Color

Out this week is a reissue of The Baby-Sitters Club: Kristy’s Great Idea, this time in full color. If you’re wondering why, a key clue is the top line of the book’s cover: “A graphic novel from the bestselling author of Smile, Raina Telgemeier”. The author of the original story, Ann M. Martin, has swapped places with her. Before, the idea was to move a beloved series of children’s novels to a new format; now, Raina is the hottest thing […]

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Raina Telgemeier Announces Next Book, Sisters

Raina Telgemeier has announced her next book, Sisters. It’s billed as a companion to 2010’s Smile, her autobiographical story about growing up with dental work. Sisters, portraying Raina’s relationship with her younger sister, is due out in 2014 and is the first of a two-book deal with Scholastic’s Graphix imprint. She posted this sample art on her site, at the first link above. Anything Raina does is a must-buy for me, and I’m glad to see more about her family […]

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Raina Telgemeier’s Smile Followup Called Drama

Raina Telgemeier has announced that her next book will be titled Drama, due Fall 2012 from Scholastic’s Graphix imprint. They also published her previous book, the Eisner Award-winning graphic novel autobiography Smile. She describes Drama as “about middle school theater geeks, stage crew, putting on a play, love and hate and friendship”. Even if that description wasn’t of interest to me, anything she does is a must-read, she’s that talented.

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Share Your Smile: Raina’s Guide to Telling Your Own Story

Raina Telgemeier’s latest book, Share Your Smile: Raina’s Guide to Telling Your Own Story, puts a workshop course between covers. Her many devout fans will find this journal, full of prompts and activities, a friendly guide to making their own comics. After a welcoming introduction, there are four chapters, each focusing on one of Telgemeier’s books: Smile, Sisters, Drama, and Ghosts. The first, covering Smile, is the longest, with the most detail about Telgemeier’s creative process and short lessons on […]

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Raina’s New Book Will Have a Million Copies

At the recently passed New York Comic Con, Graphix announced two Raina Telgemeier books coming in 2019. I wrote about them for Good Comics for Kids. Short version: Guts is another graphic memoir, like her best-selling Smile, but set earlier and tackling more difficult subjects: anxiety, phobias, therapy, and stomachaches. Due out September 2019, it will have an initial print run of one million copies. That’s amazing but well-supported by the size and range of her audience. Before that, there’s […]

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More on New Projects From Larson, Telgemeier

Hope Larson (A Wrinkle in Time, Mercury) will be writing a new comic called Goldie Vance. Brittney Williams (who drew the Hellcat relaunch for Marvel) will illustrate the story, about a 16-year-old in the 1960s who wants to become the full-time in-house detective at her father’s Florida resort hotel. Goldie Vance will launch from Boom! in April as a four-issue miniseries. From the interview linked above, it’s clear that this was an editorially-driven project, with Williams and Larson recruited to […]

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