The Cartoonists Club - bookrastinating.com

Paperback, 288 pages

English language

Published 2025 by Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic.

ISBN:: 978-1-338-77721-5

Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud team up for a one-of-a-kind friendship story about creativity and self-expression that blends how-to and comics magic!

Makayla is bursting with ideas but doesn't know how to make them into a story. Howard loves to draw, but he struggles to come up with ideas and his dad thinks comics are a waste of time. Lynda constantly draws in her sketchbook but keeps focusing on what she feels are mistakes, and Art simply loves being creative and is excited to try something new. They come together to form The Cartoonists Club, where kids can learn about making comics and use their creativity and imagination for their own storytelling adventures!

Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud team up for a one-of-a-kind friendship story about creativity and self-expression that blends how-to and comics magic!

Makayla is bursting with ideas but doesn't know how to make them into a story. Howard loves to draw, but he struggles to come up with ideas and his dad thinks comics are a waste of time. Lynda constantly draws in her sketchbook but keeps focusing on what she feels are mistakes, and Art simply loves being creative and is excited to try something new. They come together to form The Cartoonists Club, where kids can learn about making comics and use their creativity and imagination for their own storytelling adventures!

2 editions

left_adjoint@bookwyrm.social reviewed The Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier

Like if Stolen Sharpie Revolution had a framing narrative

5 stars

I'm super outside the target demographic being an adult and all but I was curious because it was raina telgemeier and scott flipping mccloud collabing on something

and it's basically what you'd expect: charming expressive art and cute storytelling combined with a really lucid description of a bunch of practical aspects of how to tell stories via comics, make mini zines, &c.

I liked it even if it did the ultra-cis thing of having a character introduce themselves as "I use they/them pronouns" and then have the character be indistinguishable from a cis boy in the rest of the narrative

I'm super outside the target demographic being an adult and all but I was curious because it was raina telgemeier and scott flipping mccloud collabing on something

and it's basically what you'd expect: charming expressive art and cute storytelling combined with a really lucid description of a bunch of practical aspects of how to tell stories via comics, make mini zines, &c.

I liked it even if it did the ultra-cis thing of having a character introduce themselves as "I use they/them pronouns" and then have the character be indistinguishable from a cis boy in the rest of the narrative