Joined the gang of luminaries on the Literary Ladies Guide, a site that provides of Inspiration for Readers and Writers from Classic Women Authors.
I wrote a new bit about the process of making the book especially here.
Stuck in Vermont and a Book Launch
Join me and Jason Lutes at Phoenix Books on Sept 26th for a launch of Charlotte Bronte Before Jane Eyre and Houdini: the Handcuff King. We’ll have a discussion about historical biography and creating graphic novels.
If you can’t wait for that, here’s Episode 591 of Eva Solberger’s Stuck In Vermont, where I talk about making the book about Charlotte Bronte, the great cartooning weather in the state of Vermont, and a theme park idea. (hint: there will be gruel.)
The New Yorker: Nineteenth-Century Novels, with Better Birth Control
If our fave literary heroines of the Nineteenth-Century had access to birth control, many of the plots are solved almost before they begin. Or maybe it’s the institution of marriage that is the problem? Read all ten panels on The New Yorker.
My Life with Charlotte Bronte in SevenDaysVT
This one page is in the annual Cartoon Issue, with a great cover by Alison Bechdel.
Research Trip to Haworth
This past year I've ben working on a graphic biography about Charlotte Bronte for the Center for Cartoon Studies Series. In May, on my way to a residency in Angouleme, I took a detour to Haworth, the village in Yorkshire where the Brontes lived to visit the Bronte Parsonage Museum and walk on the moors. I'm drawing the book now and-- if all goes well--it will be out in later 2019.
Some Great Works of Literature with Comments by a Child in the New Yorker
This comic appeared in the New Yorker in April. We read one third of Jane Eyre, the first two chapters of Great Expectations, and nothing beyond the first chapter of Wuthering Heights-- but enough to get essential commentary on the books.
