Her main breakthrough into published comics came from creating graphic novel adaptations of Baby-Sitters Club novels. Telgemeier has said that the disciplined structure and schedule of publishing a weekly webcomic encouraged her to develop the autobiographical story Smile. In 2004, Telgemeier joined Girlamatic, a subscription-based webcomics site dedicated to female writers. Other early works include a short story in Bizarro World for DC Comics and a short story in Volume 4 of the Flight anthology. Each was a twelve-page black-and-white comic. She produced seven mini-comics issues in the Take-Out series between 20. Career Īfter graduating from the School of Visual Arts, Telgemeier began attending small-press festivals such as the MoCCA Festival, selling self-published autobiographical stories and vignettes from her life. Telgemeier studied illustration at New York's School of Visual Arts she graduated in 2002.

She attended Lowell High School in San Francisco. According to Telgemeier, she knocked out two front teeth while in sixth grade and needed braces and multiple surgeries as a result. She has two younger siblings, Amara and William. Telgemeier was born on in San Francisco and grew up there. She has also written and illustrated the graphic novels Ghosts and Guts as well as four graphic novels adapted from The Baby-Sitters Club stories by Ann M. Her works include the autobiographical webcomic Smile, which was published as a full-color middle grade graphic novel in February 2010, and the follow-up Sisters and the fiction graphic novel Drama, all of which have been on The New York Times Best Seller lists.

Raina Diane Telgemeier ( / ˈ t ɛ l ɡ ə ˈ m aɪ ər/, born May 26, 1977) is an American cartoonist. Eisner: 2011 ( Smile), 2015 ( Sisters), 2017 ( Ghosts), Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids' Comics: 2017 ( Ghosts)

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