Over the years, author/artist Raina Telgemeier had detailed her teenage “dental drama” to many friends, finding that people were fascinated by the sometimes-gory saga. So when an editor at Scholastic ...

Polk County in Florida is the latest to be subject to banning of the critically acclaimed bestselling graphic novels from schools, part of a series of such exclusions in recent years that Bleeding ...

Each month, the Iowa City Public Library’s will feature a comic or graphic novel for kids, suggest a sweet treat pairing, include a game or activity, and ask a couple discussion questions about the ...

Spend an afternoon with Raina as she shares her artwork and tells stories about a range of topics spanning from her childhood to the creation of her graphic novels Smile, Sisters, Guts, Drama, and ...

"Drama" by Raina Telgemeier is the Hamilton Book of the Week, nominated by Caroline Mickey, the librarian at Alpine Crest Elementary School. "Drama" is a graphic novel written by Raina Telgemeier, an ...

Raina Telgemeier’s YA graphic memoirs—Smile, Sisters, and her latest, Guts (Scholastic, September)—are so relatable, hilarious, and comforting that you may want to cancel your plans for the day and ...

Each week, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance. This week, it’s Ghosts. Written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier (Smile, Drama) with colors by Braden Lamb (Adventure ...

From The New Yorker: "'Ghosts,' the new book by Raina Telgemeier, graphic novelist extraordinaire, comes out today. Telgemeier’s realistic, sometimes autobiographical books have helped popularize ...

When you’ve been in psychotherapy for as long as I have, you end up talking to your therapists from time to time about writers — Freud and Kierkegaard, let’s say, or Brené Brown and Tara Brach — whose ...