In this episode you will get to listen to NY Times bestseller Dave Roman, graphic novel author and illustrator of the new book, Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity
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In this episode you’ll hear us talk about
- how we “met cute”
- how Dave proposed via a comic
- Dave’s talented wife, Raina Telgemeier, author of Smile
- Comic Life
- how much of one’s private life does one put in a book and then … what makes it fiction?
- what international stationary is
- how and why Dave made Astronaut Academy a manga hybrid
- how I called Dave’s writing stupid but I didn’t mean it the way it sounded!
- what a Tactical Randomness Workshop can do for you!
- Dave’s drawing process
- different ways to present graphic novels to a crowd
- Teen Boat! (see the video below)
- how art school make you insecure whether you go (him) or not (me)
- how he submits a graphic novel
- how Dave submits a graphic novel manuscript to an artist
- MOCCA
- pop quiz: when you make no money where do you get the badge of honor, in comics or in children’s publishing?!
- when does talking to pirates lead to detention?
- Abby Denson, cartoonist and great songwriter and singer of the funny Teen Boat trailer
- what’s the youngest graphic novel age range?
- why graphic novels are so great for reluctant readers
