TFK Kid Reporter Nate Rhew read The Cartoonists Club, a graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud. Read Nate’s thoughts below.
Middle school student Makayla is imaginative and full of ideas. When she helps her friend Howard come up with inspiration for his drawings, she discovers she loves making comics. She and Howard start a club for students who want to make and sell them. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel, by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud, is about a group of kids who are very different from one another but who are united by their love of art and storytelling.
With the help of their school librarian, Ms. Fatima, the club members experiment with different ways to make comics and learn techniques to improve them. Ms. Fatima shares her golden rule for making comics and helps them sell their work at a comics convention.
Raina Telgemeier told TFK, “I hope [readers] feel inspired, and I hope they feel empowered. I want every reader to think, ‘I can do this.’”
Scott McCloud wants readers to know that “Sometimes, failure can be valuable. If you try something and it doesn’t work out the first time, you can learn a lot from that. You should always make at least one mistake.”
The kids in the cartoonists club come from varied backgrounds and have their own separate struggles, but they all love creating comics. This is a great book for someone who wants to learn how to make comics or connect with others who share their interest. As Telgemeier tells TFK, “I want us all to be in a big cartoonists club together.”
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