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Jon Scieszka & Steven Weinberg Tell You How to Write & Draw Anything

How to Write and Draw Anything by Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg is a nonfiction middle-grade graphic novel to help people create art.

Published Fri, 29 Dec 2023 13:57:09 -0600

by Rich Johnston

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Explore 'How to Write and Draw Anything' by Jon Scieszka & Steven Weinberg.
Jon Scieszka: author and literacy advocate, with a robust literary background.
Steven Weinberg: prolific illustrator, with diverse contributions to art and literature.
'How to Write and Draw Anything' to be published by Holiday House in Autumn 2025.

How to Write and Draw Anything by Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg is a nonfiction middle-grade graphic novel showing the step-by-step process of turning ideas into art.

Jon Scieszka, with an MFA at Columbia in New York, is best known for his picture books created with illustrator Lane Smith and founder of Guys Read, literacy program for boys and young men, the first U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. His Time Warp Trio series, which teaches kids history, has been adapted for television. He currently lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with his wife, an interior designer.

Steven Weinberg is a writer, illustrator, and painter in the Catskill Mountains of New York. His work has appeared everywhere from books to beer cans to the Smithsonian, but is best known for illustrating children's books, including What Is]Color, the Astro-Nut series, The Middle Kid, the Big Job series and more. Along with his wife Casey Scieszka, he owns and operates the Spruceton Inn: a Catskills Bed and Bar which runs an annual Artist Residency.

Taylor Norman at Holiday House/Neal Porter Books has acquired publishing rights to How to Write and Draw Anything for the autumn of 2025.

Jon Scieszka's agent Steve Malk at Writers House, and and Steven Weinberg's agent Marcia Wernick at Wernick & Pratt Agency represented the pair in negotiation.

The expansion of younger readers graphic novels is fuelling all manner of publishers extending into the comics medium. Right now it seems like an infinite market that is being tapped into, and creating longstanding comic book readers for decades to come. It is not for nothing that kids graphic novels in bookstores are being referred to as the newsstand of the twenty-first century, and the future readers of the medium are being formed and created right here, right now.

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