“The decision to do a one million copy print run was based on track record and growing demand for each new book,” said Berger, who said there’s no average print run in children’s publishing. “Raina’s ...

The graphic novelist who first cracked the bestseller list by writing about her teeth has turned her focus to another part of her body, her stomach. It’s yes, a gutsy move – and one that pays off.

Raina Telgemeier spills her guts—quite literally—in her latest graphic novel, appropriately entitled Guts (Scholastic Graphix, Sept.), the third in a series inspired by Telgemeier’s memorable ...

Raina Telgemeier is an author and illustrator based in San Francisco, California. She’s a “YA rock star”, beloved by millions of readers of all ages — but especially tweens who feel seen and supported ...

Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: ...

Raina Telgemeier isn’t solely responsible for the explosion of graphic novels in the current literary landscape, but sometimes it feels like the industry revolves around her. It might just be a ...

When you’ve been in psychotherapy for as long as I have, you end up talking to your therapists from time to time about writers — Freud and Kierkegaard, let’s say, or Brené Brown and Tara Brach — whose ...

Raina Telgemeier’s YA graphic memoirs—Smile, Sisters, and her latest, Guts (Scholastic, September)—are so relatable, hilarious, and comforting that you may want to cancel your plans for the day and ...

Raina Telgemeier's largely autobiographical stories are so accessible and emotionally resonant that there are 13.5 million copies of them in print. Joseph Fanvu / Scholastic In the late 1980s, young ...

SHE’S MORE than a top young-adult cartoonist — she’s attained single-name recognition as a rock-star author. So it’s big news that Raina — as in Telgemeier — will deliver two books next year. The ...

The graphic novelist who first cracked the bestseller list by writing about her teeth has turned her focus to another part of her body, her stomach. It’s yes, a gutsy move — and one that pays off.

In the late 1980s, young Raina Telgemeier tried to deliver a report in front of her grade-school class in San Francisco. Before she could finish, she bolted for the restroom, gripped by the symptoms ...