![]() ![]() (noun) The book's impact on Susan was that it inspired her to become a writer. Telgemeier’s success has made a big impact × impact KLAUS VEDFELT-GETTY IMAGES There are more than 18 million copies of her books in print. Since then, Telgemeier has published several more popular graphic novels. “I knew I couldn’t possibly be the only kid interested in people and emotions and everyday problems,” she says. But Telgemeier suspected they were wrong. Some people who worked in the publishing industry figured that kids wouldn’t enjoy a graphic novel about an average girl. ![]() about Telgemeier’s middle school experiences with braces and dental surgery.īefore Smile was published, in 2010, it wasn’t clear the book would succeed, Telgemeier says. (noun) Michelle Obama wrote a memoir called Becoming. It’s a graphic memoir × memoir DREW ANGERER-GETTY IMAGES Twenty-three years later, she published Smile. ![]() Telgemeier loved some of them, especially Calvin and Hobbes, but she wanted more.Īt around 10, she started drawing her own comics. She wanted comics that told stories she could relate to as an ordinary kid. There were comic books about superheroes, which weren’t her thing. At the time, two types of comics were widely available to kids. “They were the perfect combination of all the things I liked: characters and stories and humor and artwork,” she told TIME for Kids.īut she had a problem: a shortage of reading material. When Raina Telgemeier was a kid in the 1980s, she fell in love with comics. ![]()
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