Raina Telgemeier

Raina Telgemeier was born on May 26, 1977 in San Francisco, California. She has a younger brother named Will as well as a sister named Amara. During her pre-teen years, Telgemeier suffered a serious mouth injury due to which she had to undergo several years of dental and orthodontic surgeries. Due to her injury, she was viciously teased by some of her friends and this made her seek solace in drawing. She eventually found some good friends in high school who appreciated her talent, thereby increasing her confidence. And with that encouragement, Telgemeier studied illustration at School of Visual Arts, New York. Currently, the American cartoonist is living with her husband, Dave Roman, in California.

Raina Telgemeier's vast range of works include a series of self-published mini-comics called ‘Take-Out,’ a short story in Volume 4 of the ‘Flight’ anthology, and a short story in ‘Bizarro World’ for DC Comics. She also created four graphic novel adaptations of Ann M. Martin's The Baby-sitters Club series for Scholastic/Graphix: ‘Kristy's Great Idea,’ ‘The Truth About Stacey,’ ‘Mary Anne Saves the Day,’ and ‘Claudia and Mean Janine.’

Telgemeier co-authored ‘X-Men: Misfits’ with her husband and the book was released in 2009. The following year, Telgemeier released ‘Smile’ – an autobiographical graphic novel based on her webcomic named ‘Smile (A Dental Drama).’ In this book, the author described the serious mouth injury that she had got during her pre-teen years. After this, in 2012, Telgemeier released the fiction graphic novel ‘Drama.’ It included some of her experiences regarding school theatre programs. Two years later, she released her 2nd autobiographical graphic novel named ‘Sisters’. This novel depicts Telgemeier’s experience growing up with her sister. Then in 2016, her new novel titled ‘Ghosts’ was released.