At minimum, this article aims to correct this oversight by investigating avenues of scholarly literature that engage with Telgemeier’s work and by providing critical insights into the composition of Telgemeier’s newest work, Guts, from a formalist perspective.īart Beaty’s prediction that the lack of attention given to Telgemeier’s work will “change over time” as “omorrow’s undergraduates” undertake comics criticism, is already becoming actualized (“11 Million” 2016). In a blog post titled “ 11 Million Reasons to Smile,” comics scholar, Bart Beaty, notes that “the near total absence of scholarly discussion of Telgemeier and her work,” given her popular success, is “just a little bit insane”. Telgemeier’s work routinely garners much praise but not much critical attention. Such work is deemed simplistic, childish, or merely ‘popular.’ Telgemeier’s best-selling books such as Smile, Drama, Sisters, and Ghosts, which typically fall under the Young Adult or slice-of-life umbrella, often fall prey to such thoughtless descriptors. When comics are composed as effortlessly as Raina Telgemeier’s, they are too easily dismissed.
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