4 Quotes & Sayings By Raina Telgemeier

Raina Telgemeier was born in the Bay area of San Francisco, California. She began illustrating her own comics at the age of nine, and soon after graduated to writing and illustrating her own stories. Raina has worked on the top-selling graphic novels Smile, Drama, Drama Girlz, and Drama. Her picture books include And I Thought I Saw a Cat! and Doodles Read more

She is also a well-known cartoonist for the webcomic Smile.

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When I was doing 'Smile, ' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off! ' Raina Telgemeier
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I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile, ' I learned to adapt to color on my end. Raina Telgemeier
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All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension. Raina Telgemeier