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Junk Wars is on Kickstarter!

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The Let’s Go!: A Kids Comics Studio Anthology launches at 4 pm EDT on Kickstarter today! Click the “Notify me” button on our launch page to be kept up to date.

April 22 also happens to be Earth Day, and since the story that Cesar Lador and I collaborated on confronts the problems of space junk and ocean pollution, we wanted to share a little more information on how the story came about. What better way to do that than through an interview? How about two interviews?

The first is a video interview that the talented Sarah Giles prepared and edited, followed by a Q&A where Cesar and I interviewed each other.

And now the Q&A part.

My questions for Cesar:

When you get a script, how do you determine if it’s a right fit for you? Why did you agree to collaborate on Junk Wars? 

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Interview with Author-Illustrator Bob Thibeault

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Bob Thibeault, author-illustrator and fellow KCS Anthology contributor, has kindly agreed to answer some questions about his short-comic entry that will appear in the Let’s Go!: A Kids Comics Studio Anthology, which we are getting ready to crowdfund this April!

Perfect timing to introduce our crowdfunding news, in fact, as Bob co-contributed to an article on our KCS Anthology blog about creating a Kickstarter campaign.

Thank you, Bob, for answering these questions:

What motivated you to sign up for the anthology?

I have been part of Kid’s Comics Studio since it began and have become a community member who has always wanted an opportunity to be a part of a group effort like this. 

How did you get the idea for your comic? 

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Three Amazing Opportunities for Graphic Novel Creators

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KidLitGN’s pitch event opened last night for loading pitches and this morning for agents, editors, and publishers to view and select pitches. GN creators still have until Oct. 3 at 8 pm EDT to load pitches. And agents, editors, and publishers can view pitches until Oct. 31 at 8 pm EDT.

See kidlitgn.com for details.

Also on KidLitGN’s blog, is a comprehensive Q&A from literary agent Janna Morishima, where she mentions the opportunity to join Kids Comics Studio–the membership part of Kids Comics Unite. The latter is free and open for joining year round. Kids Comics Studio, however, opens for new members at select times of the year (it’s open for a few more weeks) and has a monthly or yearly charge. Kids Comics Studio offers weekly workshops, critique and accountability sessions, networking with other graphic novel creators and a whole host of opportunities you won’t find anywhere else (see here for more details). I’ve been a member of Kids Comics Studio and have benefited from the community’s knowledge in countless ways, one of which leads into the third opportunity…

Some Kids Comics Studio members are putting together an anthology that we will be crowdfunding in April 2025. We’ve been hard at work coming up with a theme, planning our design, marketing, and of course, creating our comics. I’m collaborating with two amazing illustrators on two projects, which I’m hoping to share with you in the months ahead. And, we are rolling out our newsletter, where GN creators and other interested parties can join our journey through this process and learn what we have learned as we’ve collaborated to create this graphic novel. You can sign up for the newsletter at this link: https://bit.ly/kcu-studio-anthology

So there you have it, three opportunities to dive into the graphic novel creator’s world, KidLitGN’s pitch event, Kids Comics Studio, and the Kids Comics Studio Anthology newsletter.

You can access Janna’s amazing article here: https://kidlitgn.com/2024/10/02/what-are-agents-looking-for-a-qa-with-graphic-novel-agent-janna-morishima/