While Telgemeier may have found the basis for her latest graphic novel–cum-memoir, Guts, in her own life experience, that didn’t mean it was an easy story to tell. “But after doing that for 25 years,” she says, “I realized the ideas, the stories, were right there.” “I thought if you wanted to be a writer, you had to be somebody who made stuff up, and I wasn’t one of those kids.” And so her comics became a diary of sorts, something private and personal that she did for herself without any intention of sharing. “I had a really hard time coming up with ideas,” she recalls. For a “lack of other stories,” she chose to focus on the everyday, on life as she saw it unfolding around her. From the age of 9, enamored by the comic strips she read in newspapers, Telgemeier began creating her own. Raina Telgemeier was producing autobiographical comics long before the runaway success of her New York Times bestselling graphic novels Smile (2010) and Sisters(2014).
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