![]() In the meantime I did a bunch of anthologies and shows and built Demon Street out into the 600+ page monster it is now.ĭid you read comics and graphic novels as a kid? What do you say to those parents, teachers, and librarians who still don’t consider comics and graphic novels “real” books and the reading of them “real” reading? In 2014 I wrote the first story with Beetle and Blob Ghost as a kind of Halloween special and I couldn’t put the characters down, so as everything else continued to develop I kept sending Beetle around to different people and working on developing it out, first into a storyboard and then some years later into a book pitch. I started seriously teaching myself how to draw when I was around 17, back in 2010, and by 2013 I was making Demon Street, which is my longform fantasy-horror webcomic that’s free to read online. ![]() ![]() Can you talk about your background in comics? Hello! I’m Aliza and I write silly books very seriously.īEETLE & THE HOLLOWBONES is your first graphic novel, but you have been making and sharing comics for a long time. ![]() ![]() Hello, Aliza! Thank you for coming to the MG Book Village to talk about your debut graphic novel, BEETLE & THE HOLLOWBONES! Before we get to the book, would you like to introduce yourself to our site’s readers? ![]()
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