The 'Children of the New Earth' online magazine awarded the book its 'CNE seal of Excellence.' The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) chose my book, 'Drawing Faeries: A Believer's Guide,' for their 2004 'Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults' reading list.
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The Young Adult Library Services Association selected two of my books for their prestigious "2003 Quick Picks for Young Adults." Those titles are: "Anime Mania: How to Draw Characters for Japanese Animation" and "Mecha Mania: How to Draw the Battling Robots, Cool Spaceships, and Military Vehicles of Japanese Comics." my title, 'Manga Mania: How to Draw Japanese Comics,' was selected for 2002. It is also the winner of the prestigious New Jersey Library Association's Garden State Teen Book Award for 2004 in the category of nonfiction for grades 6-12. My book, 'Manga Mania: How to Draw Japanese Comics,' quickly became the number one selling art book in the country (source: Bookscan). Well, I've sold over 3 million books domestically since then, have 19 translations, and I'm still at it. They asked me to do another, and then another. The result was 'How to Draw Cartoons for Comic Strips,' and it sold briskly. They asked me to do a book for them on drawing cartoons. My cartoon work got noticed by Watson-Guptill, a premier publisher of art books. And I began writing for the Blondie comic strip, and began contributing regularly to Mad Magazine, and did some cartooning for magazines.
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Writers in Hollywood weren't allowed to work for TV or the screen. But then the Writer's Guild went on strike. I also wrote for 20th Century Fox, MGM-Pathe', The Showtime Cable TV Network and Paramount Pictures. New York city had slightly more to offer.Īfter I graduated, I worked as a staff writer on several NBC prime-time, comedy-variety television shows. The social scene at Valencia consisted of a sandwich shop, where you could buy a magazine, if you got there early enough. So I left and enrolled in, and graduating from, New York University. I was more interested in character design, and story, rather than drawing twelve poses to create one second of movement. At Cal-Arts, we had to do a lot of intense animation, which I found tedious. I graduated from High School, and attended the character animation program at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Cartooning was a magical experience to me.
I used to drive 136 miles, each way, on the weekends, when I was 16, just for the opportunity to get paid to draw. I started drawing character designs for a small animation studio in San Diego, California, when I was still in High School in Los Angeles. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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