Search the site!
Upcoming Events
- No events.
Category Archives: Blog Entries
San Diego Comic Con 2013
Here is where to find me at this year’s San Diego Comic Con July 18th-21st
THURSDAY
2:30-3:30pm
Signing copies of Astronaut Academy at :01 First Second Booth #1323
FRIDAY
12-1pm
CBLDF Presents: Raising a Reader
Join an all-star panel of kids comics creators and educators to discuss ways to get children excited about reading, encouraging creativity, and cultivating a love of [...]
Summer Art Camps
Got to participate in some awesome summer camp programs with young artists in the past week!
First was the Imagination Academy at NYPL
That was followed up with an afternoon with the Summer Illustration Art Academy at Society of Illustrators and a trip to the Hayden Planetarium.
Kids Comics Awards 2013
On Sunday June 23rd the first ever KCR! Comics Awards ceremony was held at the Kids Read Comics Festival in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The nominees were selected by a committee of teachers, librarians, and retailers, then voted on by kids online and via paper ballots.
The awards themselves were presented as customized LEGO trophies [...]
We’re on tour! Summer 2013
Raina Telgemeier, John Green & I are on the road for the next two weeks and we hope you’ll come out and see us at one of the following stops!
Kids Read Comics
Ann Arbor District Library
June 22nd-23rd
A totally free comic convention featuring Ben Hatke (Zita the Space Girl), Rafael Rosado (Giants Beware!), John Martin (Vordak), [...]
Posted in Blog Entries
Tagged ann arbor, appearances, Chicago, comic shops, michigan, tour
Comments Off
The reviews are in!
Here’s what people are saying about Astronaut Academy: Re-Entry…
“A sequel just as goofy and sweet as the original book..brings the action-packed story to a satisfying conclusion.”
-Shelf Awareness
“A delightful and often clever voyage that will remind you of middle school even when it’s completely packed with robots and panda bears.”
-iO9
“Smart, inventive, and funny.”
-Comics Waiting Room
“I [...]
Posted in Blog Entries
Comments Off
School visit drawing jam
My favorite part of author visits is encouraging kids to draw. Here’s some photos from my recent trip to Toronto.
NY Book Parties!
Come celebrate the release of Astronaut Academy: Re-Entry at two awesome events!
May 21st at 4pm at The Voracious Reader! Signing + drawing!
The Voracious Reader
1997 Palmer Avenue,
Larchmont, NY 10538
Phone: (914) 630-4581
May 22nd at 7pm at WORD. Free drinks and snacks! Drawing Jam!
WORD
126 Franklin St.
Brooklyn, New York
Facebook RSVP encouraged, but not required.
May Events Part 1
SATURDAY
I’ll be appearing at the Gaithersburg Book Festival on May 18th, 2013
Location: Jim Henson Pavilion
Time: 12:15pm
On the Jim Henson stage! How cool is that? Followed by a book signing sponsored by Politics and Prose.
SUNDAY
Excited about returning to the the Maine Comics Arts Festival on May 19th, 2013
I’ll be sharing a table with Raina Telgemeier [...]
New Book Day!
It’s a book! Introducing our new baby to the world!
Two years in the making… Astronaut Academy: Re-Entry, my latest full-length graphic novel, is on store shelves now!
Astronaut Academy: Re-Entry was a labor of love, and I couldn’t have made it without the support of all my friends and family! I know how lucky I am, [...]
Announcing the new Kids Comics Awards!
KIDS’ COMICS REVOLUTION! INVITES KIDS TO PICK THEIR FAVORITE
GRAPHIC NOVELS, COMICBOOKS, WEBCOMICS, AND MORE WITH THE
KCR! COMICS AWARDS!
Kids vote online or by ballot from now through June 23rd, 2013
May 8th, 2013 – Kids’ Comics Revolution!, a podcast dedicated to spotlighting the expanding worlds of kids comics and kid lit, announces the first annual KCR! Comics [...]