Graphic novelist looks at teen angst in “Eighth Grade”
The key to addictive comics is in the writing, not the art.That’s how comic book creator Sam Alden views his craft, even though he may be on his way to becoming a top illustrator. Alden is a 2012 graduate of Whitman College who is spending his summer in Southeast Alaska as a Sitka Fellow, in a new program on the Sheldon Jackson Campus. He hopes to use his seven-week residency to fully develop an idea for his latest work, a graphic novel titled Eighth Grade.
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