At certain points she has held four out of the top five spots on the New York Times Best Seller list, which is kind of a big deal. The Wall Street Journal did a profile on her a year and a half ago, but beyond that, her name rarely shows up outside of quickly forgotten press releases. But because she makes comics, full stop, she’s regarded as beneath the more mainstream pop-culture sites. The kinds of comics she makes, the audiences she attracts, situates her pretty firmly outside of the exclusionary “comics” discourse that goes on in niche sites. One thing about the book that bothers me-well, not about the book per se, but about the way the book is talked about-is that, because of the way comics have been marginalized, Smile and Telgemeier’s successes in general haven’t really been talked about in any substantive way. SPEAKING OF Telgemeier, her breakout book, Smile, was the subject of a “Back Issues’ roundtable on the AV Clubwhich goes over the rise of kids GNS though, from a very contemporary perspective, as Hennum wrote: I’ll try to write a longer review later (HA!) but I’m sure this will strike a chord with her devoted readers and new ones as well. It’s dark, sweet and comes with a very important message about the balance of life and death, along with Raina’s usual insights into those awkward middle school years. Older sister Catrina has to adapt to the new town and all its stores about being haunted. The story concerns a family that moves to a windy, seaside town for the health of their youngest daughter, Maya, who has systic fibrosis. This is Telgemeier’s second purely fictional GN (after Drama) and it goes into a lot of territory that she hasn’t visited before and…I loved it.
This information came to me with a galley of Ghosts and I got to read it.
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