Failing (to Quit): One Meandering Path to a Professional Comics Debut

Daniel McCloskey

2/2022 · Originally published by The Comics Beat

Táto e‑kniha

Before Daniel McCloskey's professional debut as a graphic novelist, he was a kid failing third-grade English. This is the story of a would-be author/illustrator struggling as a special needs student in the gifted program, as a college student majoring in his worst subject, and with his first opportunity to sell a graphic novel to Amulet books, publisher of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales!

This short inspirational comic was first published for free on The Comics Beat website as a six-part web series.

Like this comic? Check out Daniel's debut graphic novel Cloud Town, a middle-grade graphic novel about grit, giant robots, and friendship! Available now wherever fine books are sold.

O autorovi

Daniel McCloskey is a writer and graphic artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a recipient of the Creative Development Grant from The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation. He also received the Small Arts Initiative Grant to promote reading as performance via the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writers’ Project, which he founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. McCloskey’s a consummate zine maker and cartoonist. Cloud Town is his debut graphic novel.