- 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" forDC Comics , and two graphic novel adaptations ofAnn M. Martin 's "The Baby-sitters Club " series forScholastic 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 andAdrian Tomine among her influences. She is married toDave Roman , who is also a cartoonist.Acclaim
Telgemeier was nominated for the 2005
Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition, and the 2003Ignatz Award in the categories of Promising New Talent and Outstanding Mini-comic. She was awardedFriends of Lulu 's Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent in 2003. She has twice been nominated for theWeb Cartoonists' Choice Award for Outstanding Slice-of-Life webcomic, for SMILE.The Baby-sitters Club Graphic Novel
Kristy's Great Idea was picked byYALSA 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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