by jdsmeaton | Mar 17, 2025 | 3 Questions With...
3 Questions With… Kay Davault I’m not sure where I first came across Kay’s work. Maybe I was looking for something new or maybe it was recommended. Regardless, I’m not recommending her to you. I read Star Knights and it’s delightful. It’s about an outcast frog...
by jdsmeaton | Feb 18, 2025 | 3 Questions With...
3 Questions With… Li Chen I came across Li’s work while looking for new graphic novels online. Detective Beans popped up and I was immediately sold. The art is top-notch, beautiful, and fun. And how could you not love the premise? A kid cat who’s a wannabe 1950s-type...
by jdsmeaton | Jan 13, 2025 | 3 Questions With..., Recommendations
3 Questions With… Jamar Nicholas A couple years ago Leon The Extraordinary burst on to the scene. It’s a graphic novel about an ordinary kid who lives in a world filled with superheroes and supervillains. Leon wants to be a superhero but doesn’t have any special...
by jdsmeaton | Nov 20, 2024 | 3 Questions With..., Inspiration, Recommendations
3 Questions With… Dan Abdo (of Dan & Jason fame) I discovered Dan & Jason from a talk they did at Kid’s Comics Unite. The pair met in high school and have been creating things together ever since. It’s a true collaboration. They both write and draw and it...
by jdsmeaton | Oct 16, 2024 | 3 Questions With...
3 Questions With… Ruth Chan I am a sucker for personal stories, memoirs, and coming of age stuff. So when I saw Uprooted, I was all in. It’s Ruth Chan’s story about when she was in junior high, her family moved from Canada to Hong Kong, where her parents originally...
by jdsmeaton | Sep 18, 2024 | 3 Questions With...
3 Questions With… Ryan Andrews I don’t know a whole lot about Ryan. Just what he has on his website. He lives in Japan and works in animation doing backgrounds for Disney. What I do know is that when his graphic novel, This Was Our Pact came out in 2019, it blew me...