Raina Telgemeier: Raina (Smile) San Diego 2012

      It's an unusual situation for me, but I've never bought any Raina Telgemeier work, but read her books from the library. After adapting four of the popular Babysitters' Club books into graphic novels, Raina created the autobiographical Smile and followed up with Drama. Raina had an accident as a young girl and spent a great deal of time with dentists.

      At SDCC 2012, I dropped by the Cartoon Art Museum booth and found there were three Raina drawings available and bought them all. I sometimes set up library displays and like to have art related to the books in the collection.

Raina interview at ALA