Raina Telgemeier

Raina Telgemeier

Raina Telgemeier (born May 26, 1977, San Francisco, CA) is an American cartoonist whose works include the autobiographic webcomic "Smile (A Dental Drama)", which runs at [http://www.smilecomics.com SmileComics.com] , a series of self-published mini-comics called "Take-Out", a short story in "Bizarro World" for DC Comics, and two graphic novel adaptations of Ann M. Martin's "The Baby-sitters Club" series for Scholastic Press's Graphix imprint: "Kristy's Great Idea" and "The Truth About Stacey". Telgemeier has committed to scripting and illustrating at least two more books for the series.

Most recently, Telgemeier's work was featured in Volume 4 of the "Flight" anthology, published by Villard.

Biography

Telgemeier grew up in San Francisco, studied illustration at New York's School of Visual Arts, and currently lives in Queens, New York. She lists Jeff Smith, Lynn Johnston and Adrian Tomine among her influences. She is married to Dave Roman, who is also a cartoonist.

Acclaim

Telgemeier was nominated for the 2005 Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition, and the 2003 Ignatz Award in the categories of Promising New Talent and Outstanding Mini-comic. She was awarded Friends of Lulu's Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent in 2003. She has twice been nominated for the Web Cartoonists' Choice Award for Outstanding Slice-of-Life webcomic, for SMILE.

The Baby-sitters Club Graphic Novel Kristy's Great Idea was picked by YALSA for their 2007 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list, as well as ALA ’s Booklist 2007 Top Ten Graphic Novels for Youth list.

References

*Hart, James (February 24, 2005 ). "Superheros get bizarre treatment". "The Kansas City Star", Pg. G18.
*MacDonald, Heidi (April 18, 2005). "Young Cartoonists Look to the Book Market". "Publishers Weekly", Pg. 23.
*Schou, Solvej (April 18, 2006). "Not the 1980s anymore: popular Baby-sitter's Club books go graphic". "The Canadian Press", Entertainment and Culture.

External links

* [http://www.smilecomics.com SMILE]
* [http://www.goraina.com Raina's homepage]
* [http://goraina.livejournal.com/ Raina's LiveJournal]
* [http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2007/04/04/interview-raina-telgemeier-pt-1-of-3/ An interview with Raina Telgemeier] at The Daily Cross Hatch, from April 04, 2007


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