Adventures in Drawing a Graphic Memoir

Leaps, missteps, and lessons while uncovering a graphic memoir - join the fun! ✨🌟😀

By Anna Blomfield

Scripts and Birds ✒️🗒️🐥🦆🦜🦅🦉🐓🦃

Most of the time I was writing my book, I didn’t know the wisdom of planning a story, but I had begun making short cartoons and posting them on…
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Reverse Engineering 🛠️🪚🪛😅

In the last couple of newsletters/ posts we’ve been looking at the benefits of planning a book vs going by the seat of one’s pants.
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Going it alone/ Finding help 🐸🐹🐯🐣🦊🐵🐨🐰❤️

These are a couple more examples of the kind of one page diary comics I made before unwittingly embarking on a book (a graphic memoir).
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Pantser or Planner? 👖📝 🧐 ☺️

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Drawing gives me something to hold onto, flowers help too 🌼💛🌟

The second chapter of my graphic memoir, “Did You Check the Bed for Scorpions?”, is called “Death and Divorce”.
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Tricky times and drawing therapy💔❤️‍🩹

Hello again!
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Leaving is a hard choice to make 💍💔

These newsletters have been fun to write so far but this one was harder….the first chapter of the book is called “Flat Marriage” and opens in the flat…
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What happened to the devil-frog? 😈🐸😮

Before starting this book I drew one page diary comics.
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