Charles R. Smith Jr. came across the first black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson’s name while doing research for his book on Muhammad Ali. He saw similarities in their stories of success.
In If, author and illustrator Charles Smith uses photos of boys playing sports to accompany Rudyard Kipling’s classic poem of a father offering advice to his son.
Author and illustrator Raina Telgemeier discusses discovering her reading super power, keeping a comic diary, the surrealism of being the “Real Reina,” and how her graphic novels created a whole new book genre.
