Raina has reversed this trend, so now, the iconography of her breakthrough book Smile is a happily inescapable emblem blazoned on the family sections of Targets and Barnes & Nobles all across the country.
As an artist and storyteller, Telgemeier’s comics have brought a visual panache to a mainstream art that’s been mostly dismissed or overlooked by casual readers. In her works readers tackle critical matters of inner humanity, from the tribulations of growing up, to understanding the depths of friendship, to sibling rivalry and reconciliation, and now, accepting the mysterious dimensions of love, culture, and death.Īnd if you’ve paid attention to recent trends to comics in the marketplace, one of the most positive developments of the contemporary comics scene is the far-reaching presence of Telgemeier’s oeuvre. To say that Raina Telgemeier is the closest thing to a superstar in the comics industry leaves out the cardinal reason for her well-deserved popularity: her beautifully crafted stories touch on issues that affect every aspect of the soul.
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