Graphic Memoir Archives

How Do I Draw These Memories?
How Do I Draw These Memories? is the debut YA graphic memoir from author-illustrator Jonell Joshua In both prose and illustrations this book traces Joshua's childhood and her family's journey—the joys and the struggles—from Brooklyn to Savannah to New Jersey. Jonell Joshua's Graphic Memoir, How Do I Draw These Memories? "Jonell Joshua spent her childhood shuttling back and[...]
Penguin Kids Design Assistant Sells Her Graphic Memoir To First Second
Lily Kim Qian, an illustrator and design assistant at Penguin Random House for Penguin Young Readers, has had the world rights to her debut graphic memoir Until We Meet Again, formerly titled Pareidolia, picked up by Robyn Chapman of publisher First Second which "tells the story of a young girl growing up in a loving[...]
Laurel Snyder & Trung Le Nguyen Create Fairy Hunter Graphic Memoir
Fairy Hunter is a new upcoming graphic memoir written by Laurel Snyder and drawn by Trung Le Nguyen The graphic novel memoir about Snyder's life between age eight and ten, when she believed in fairies and hunted for them constantly, though everyone told her they weren't real At eight, Laurel wasn't sure what "real" was anymore—not her[...]
What If Storyboarder Noor Rasoul Sells Graphic Memoir My January Heart
She posted to Instagram, Noor Rasoul Sells Graphic Memoir, My January Heart So I'm really excited to let you all know that my comics are coming to you in a new way! MY JANUARY HEART, my debut graphic novel is coming out in Fall 2024 It is honestly the YA passion project of my dreams It'll be[...]
Chunky
The middle-grade graphic memoirs will be about Yehudi Mercado's 'lifelong struggle with weight and trying to meet the expectations of his sporty dad while growing up in a lower middle-class Mexican-Jewish family in Houston in the 1980s Will Hudi's imaginary mascot, Chunky, be able to cheer him in the right direction of pursuing theatre? (Hint:[...]