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

Temporary Image of Teen Boat!