Hello. Welcome back. I’ve been busy lately working on some promotional stuff for the UK release of Agent 9: Flood-A-Geddon! (Which came out yesterday.) I was asked by the amazing UK publisher Picadilly Press to write a feature story for a blog called the Federation of Children’s Book Groups. The thought of doing this kind of thing always terrifies me because my first thought is always I’m not a writer. Even the sheer fact that I’m writing posts here where my words are center stage and not my art unnerves me. But I try not to let my fears stop me from pushing myself beyond my comfort zone and growing as a person and a creative. So when they asked me to write a blog post, I said, “Sure.” I’ll write something, and hopefully, it won’t be terrible.
I, too, grew up with an overbearing father. And I, too, spent a huge amount of time drawing Garfield. When I was a kid, "Garfield" didn't run in the newspaper we got at our house, but it did run in the paper the neighbors got. So once a week on trash day I'd go through the stack of old newspapers and pull out the comics page so I could cut out the "Garfield" strips and put them in the three-ring binder under my bed. In junior high I convinced the vice principal to let me and my friends put out a collection of comics using the school mimeograph machine, and of course we put in some ersatz Garfields we made. Ah, Garfield.
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Thank you for sharing! Loved this post. And your 3rd grader teacher sounds awesome.
I, too, grew up with an overbearing father. And I, too, spent a huge amount of time drawing Garfield. When I was a kid, "Garfield" didn't run in the newspaper we got at our house, but it did run in the paper the neighbors got. So once a week on trash day I'd go through the stack of old newspapers and pull out the comics page so I could cut out the "Garfield" strips and put them in the three-ring binder under my bed. In junior high I convinced the vice principal to let me and my friends put out a collection of comics using the school mimeograph machine, and of course we put in some ersatz Garfields we made. Ah, Garfield.