Raina Telgemeier's Blog, page 7
August 11, 2014
Signed copies of SISTERS by mail!
Hi everyone!
Wow, two weeks until Sisters is out…I’m still sorting out the details of my book tour, although some of the events have been added to my events calendar (over on the right-hand sidebar of my site’s homepage!) and I’ll be adding lots more in the next week or so. I’ll be visiting NYC, DC, Boston, Las Vegas, Ohio, Wisconsin, California, Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, Miami and lots more.
If you’re not in a state or province I’m visiting, you’re still in luck however! I’m pleased to announce that I’m partnering with my local indie bookstore, Astoria Bookshop, to offer signed copies of my books by mail!
Astoria Bookshop will ship signed copies of my books (including Smile and Drama) anywhere in the United States or Canada, either by USPS or UPS, at various shipping speeds and costs.
*****You can order them here!*****
I’m really excited to finally have a way to send signed books to everyone who wants them! And, it’s really wonderful to be able to support an independent bookstore — doubly so, one in my own neighborhood. If you find yourself in Astoria, Queens, please do yourself a favor and swing by, and tell them Raina sent you…
July 14, 2014
San Diego Comic-Con Schedule!
San Diego Comic-Con International is coming right up! Here’s where you can find me during the show.
Saturday, July 26
11am-12pm Cartoon Art Museum Booth signing #1930
Sketches are $10 suggested donation. (Please note that books are not for sale at this signing. The main purpose is to raise funds for San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum – one of my favorites!)
Sunday, July 27
12pm – 1pm Panels & Pictures – A Graphic Novel Panel (Kids/YA) Room 32AB
1:30pm – 2:30pm Raina Telgemeier signing at Sails Pavilion, AA09 (Books will be for sale at this event!)
July 2, 2014
COMICS SQUAD Event! 7/9 at the Astoria Bookshop!
YES! Comics Squad: Recess comes out next week, and Dave and I are doing an event to celebrate!
Join us on Wednesday, July 9 from 6:30-8pm at the ASTORIA BOOKSHOP – a lovely, new independent bookstore right here in our own neighborhood! New Yorkers not in Astoria, fear not: the shop is very close to the N/Q’s Broadway stop (just a couple of minutes out of midtown), and there is also plenty of parking nearby. Make an evening of it – there are tons of really great restaurants on the intersecting avenues!
We’ll be doing a live reading, some Q&A, and a drawing game–audience participation is totally encouraged! There will be snacks. And, we’ll be signing copies of Comics Squad and our other books!
COMICS SQUAD: RECESS!
Drawing Party with Raina Telgemeier and Dave Roman
THE ASTORIA BOOKSHOP
31-29 31st Street (between Broadway and 31st Avenue)
Astoria, NY 11106
(718) 278-2665
6:30-8pm
June 24, 2014
ALA Annual: Las Vegas
Hey, Librarians!
I’m excited to be attending the 2014 ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas, June 27-30!
You can find me at the following events and programs:
Friday, June 27
6:00pm Graphic Novel Stage – Comics Quickfire!
Interactive drawing game show where two audience members will team up with artists Jake Parker (Missile Mouse), Raina Telegemeier (Smile) and Nathan Hale (Hazardous Tales). Hosted by Dave Roman (Astronaut Academy) and Gregg Schigiel (Pix).
Saturday, June 28
4:00-5:00pm Random House Signing for COMICS SQUAD: RECESS!, Booth #543
Sunday, June 29
10:30-noon Scholastic Literary Event (ticketed)
3:00-4:00pm Follett Signing, Booth #1117
4:00-5:00pm Scholastic Signing for SISTERS ARCS, Booth #430-431
Monday, June 30
10:00-11:00am Graphic Novel Stage with Tom Angleberger and Cece Bell
A conversation between Tom Angleberger (Origami Yoda), Cece Bell (El Deafo) and Raina Telgemeier (Sisters)!
12:00-1:00pm Graphic Novel Stage – Comics Bakery
A live performance graphic novel theater involving lots of audience participation and silliness. Raina Telgemeier (Drama), Dave Roman (Astronaut Academy), and Jerzy Drozd (Cap’n Cat) will perform chapters from some of their latest comics.
AND, I’ll be tabling with Dave at Artist Alley Booth #2120! This is where you can find me anytime I’m not scheduled to be somewhere else. (Although I might have a sandwich in my face.) Come to our AA table for signed copies of Smile and Drama, original art, and Smile t-shirts (which will be back in the site store in July when we’re back from the conference)! Dave will have new Astronaut Academy t-shirts, and copies of his brand-new webseries, Starbunny, Inc. too – come get one and get in on the ground floor!
Smile t-shirts are back at booth #2120!
June 18, 2014
7-page SISTERS PREVIEW on Panel Mania!!!
YEAH! Publishers Weekly’s Panel Mania has an exclusive, 7-page preview of SISTERS that you can read right now! Check it out on their site!!
June 3, 2014
SMILE is Kind of Popular, Still
This boggles my mind: SMILE just hit the two-year mark on the New York Times Graphic Books Bestseller list. Two years!!! Without a movie tie-in, without being part of a series, and while competing with books like Batman and The Walking Dead. This would not have happened without the support and enthusiasm of booksellers, librarians, teachers, bloggers, and most of all, readers. So thank you, readers! You’ve made my day/week/month/year!
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I had a nice time at Book Expo America and Book Con this past week and weekend. It’s exciting to see so much support for Sisters, before it’s even published. Here are a couple of photos:
The enormous, lit-up Sisters banner at the Scholastic booth!
Signing books before my Book Con panel.
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So a couple of weeks ago, I got a neat surprise: Mark Tatulli, who is best known as the creator of the syndicated comic strips Lio and Heart of the City, decided to write a week’s worth of HotC basically celebrating Smile and the awesomeness of graphic novels in general. Here are the strips:
To say I was flattered was a huge understatement!!
I got a chance to meet Mark at Book Expo, and he is just as nice as can be. Thanks again to Mark for this incredible shout-out! I hope some of my readers will check out his comics in return.
May 23, 2014
Book Expo America (BEA)
Bookseller friends: BEA is upon us! I’ll be at or around the show pretty much every day. Here’s where you can find me!
Wednesday, May 28
3:45 – 4:30 PM
SLJ Day of Dialogue Panel: “Storied Lives”
Moderator: Paula Willey, Librarian
Panelists: Lois Ehlert, Chris Raschka, Raina Telgemeier and Peter Sís
(SLJ’s Day of Dialogue is closed to the public, but if you’re a ticketed attendee, I hope to see you at my panel!)
Thursday, May 29
4:00-5:00 PM
The Best in Fall 2014 Graphic Novels Panel
Javits: Uptown Stage
Moderator: Calvin Reid
Panelists: Michael Cho, Farel Dalyrymple, Raina Telgemeier and Jules Feiffer
Join in with graphic novelists Michael Cho (Shoplifter), Farel Dalrymple (The Wrenchies), Jules Feiffer (Kill My Mother), and Raina Telgemeier (Sisters) discuss their upcoming graphic novel projects and the state of the graphic novel industry with Publishers Weekly’s Calvin Reid.
Friday, May 30
11:00 – 11:30 AM
BEA signing—TABLE 2
I will be signing galleys of Sisters!
3:30 – 4:45 PM
CBC Tea with Children’s Authors
Location: Room 1E12/13
Saturday, May 31
(BEA Bookcon)
10:00-11:00 AM
The Graphic Novel Today
Room 1E16
Moderator: Calvin Reid
Words and pictures: they were the perfect combination in books when we were kids! But today, books with pictures can be for everyone, young and old, when they’re combined as a graphic novel. Three experts, including Calista Brill, Karen Green and Raina Telgemeier, from around the graphic novel industry talk about visual literacy, audience and the broad appeal of the graphic novel today with Publisher Weekly’s Calvin Reid.
May 14, 2014
SISTERS in the Wall Street Journal!
My upcoming graphic novel Sisters got a writeup in the Wall Street Journal! You can read the piece online here, including a couple of preview panels!
Sisters comes out on August 26th.
May 13, 2014
Gaithersburg Book Fest, May 17!
Hey, DC-area fans! I’ll be at the Gaithersburg Book Festival in Gaithersburg, MD this Saturday, May 17! Come see me at the following presentation (with my husband Dave!!):
Raina Telgemeier & Dave Roman in Conversation
Location: Willa Cather Pavilion
Start time: 1:15 pm
2:15 – 3:05pm: Signing in the Politics & Prose signing area!
Hope to see you there!
TCAF 2014 Recap!
I’m back from the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, which is one of my favorite events of the year, and this year was particularly amazing for me!
The first thing I did was appear on a panel with my cartooning idol, Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse! My good friend Scott Robins hosted a panel about library visits with the two of us, and it was a lot of fun! Lynn is a HAM!
Then later that night, *I* had the honor of interviewing Lynn and Kate Beaton, of Hark! A Vagrant fame. These women are two of Canada’s guiding lights of cartooning, albeit from different generations…and I was given the challenge of finding their common ground, on stage, in front of 450 people!
Luckily, you could not ask for two more gracious, generous, and funny ladies to share a stage with. I was on cloud 9 all weekend, after this event! (Again: check out that hamminess!)
And then, TCAF itself! Two days of festival goodness. I met some wonderful fans and a lot of new friends this year.
Here’s YA author extraordinaire Rainbow Rowell sitting at our table, pretending to be Dave while he was off on a panel–I got to know Rainbow this weekend, and she is awesome, and I can’t wait til her graphic novel with Faith Erin Hicks comes out in a few years!
I also got to see a bunch of my amazing friends this year, who came from all corners of the world (Hawaii! Florida! the UK!) to go to TCAF. It’s really one of the best international comics festivals I’ve ever been to. I know I have a lot of fans in Ontario, and I’m super grateful how many of you came out to see me this year! It’s just a big sloppy love fest, and I always go home happy.
Monday after the show, Kazu Kibuishi (creator of the Amulet series) and I got to visit the Scholastic Canada offices and hang out with some of the excellent staff there! Kazu and I will be touring North America together later this year together in support of Sisters and Amulet 6, which both hit stores August 26th… Stay tuned for more details!
Thanks to the TCAF staff and everyone in Toronto who made our weekend a memorable one!
Photo credits: Jamie Coville, Dave Roman
