Sure! Here is my Essay: Advice for Budding Cartoonists. Those know know you best will know the best way to help! I'd like to be an author/cartoonist/illustrator. If you're being bullied by kids at school, or you're worried about a friend's behavior, or something is really bothering you, it's best to talk to an adult you know and trust. I wish I could, but I'm really not in a position to do that. Can you give me some advice on a personal issue? If there is ever news on this front, you can bet I'll announce it here on my site! Can I see some pictures of you when you were a kid? If a film or television studio wants to purchase the rights to make any of my books into a TV show or a movie, they are welcome to do so, but that means entering a crazy Hollywood process that I would have very little to do with. You should make a Smile movie! Are they making a Smile movie? What about a Drama movie? Check out my Events Page for a list of upcoming events. If you'd like to order a signed copy of my books through the mail, my local independent bookstore Green Apple Books would be happy to ship them to you! Or, you can try to catch me at a public appearance. Okay, I want to buy your book! Can you sign it? I would recommend that you ask your school or public library to order my books if they don't already have them in stock.

Can you send me a free book?īelieve it or not, authors don't usually have extra copies of their books lying around! Books cost me money, too, and other people buying my books is how I make my living.

I started making my own comic strips around the same time, and realized I liked putting pictures and words together to tell stories. My favorites were Calvin and Hobbes and For Better or For Worse. I started reading the funnies in my local newspaper, The San Francisco Chronicle, when I was nine. When did you start reading comics? Did you always want to make them?

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