![]() ![]() She also created a zombie-movie inspired comic called Zombies Calling, as well as the dystopian comic Ice (originally published on Modern Tales). Since the beginning of Demonology 101, Hicks has completed a spinoff of the D101 character Sachs entitled A Distant Faith. She has created a number of graphic novels, both as sole creator (such as Zombies Calling! and Friends with Boys) and as a collaborator ( Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong and Buffy: The High School Years), as well as serialized works like Demonology 101 and The Adventures of Superhero Girl.Īfter studying animation at Sheridan College, Faith Erin Hicks came to prominence with her long-running webcomic Demonology 101 ( D101). Two Eisner Awards 2003 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awardsįaith Erin Hicks is a Canadian cartoonist and animator living in Vancouver, British Columbia. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The section became so popular that parents asked for a book. When I started working at Lucasfilm 10 years ago, I thought it would be nice to have a craft section on for kids to make things like pet toys, holiday decorations, art, puppets and other crafts but with a Star Wars touch. ![]() Later, I loved making original art for my room whether it be embroidery, watercolors, mobiles, string art - you name it. Puppets fascinated me, as did making my own toys. I love making crafts ever since I was a small child. ![]() Though I am branching out into YA fiction soon. Most of my books are for children of all ages and teens. Hosts web shows “Geek DIY” for Stan Lee’s World of Heroes, “Vaginal Fantasy” Book Club on Geek & Sundry, & her vlog “Ask Bonnie.” ![]() Bonnie also written for Wired, Star Wars Insider, Geek, Bust, Craft, and Organic Gardening, CNN.com, Huffington Post and has a column in SFX magazine. She edited/wrote for comic book anthologies ‘Womanthology: Heroic and Womantholgy: Space’ (IDW Publishing). Author of the books ‘The Star Wars Craft Book’ (Random House), ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Planets In Peril’ (DK Readers), ‘Draw Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ (Klutz Books), ‘You Can Draw: Star Wars’ (DK Children), ‘Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean To Each Other And How We Can Change’ (Zest Books) and ‘Never Threaten To Eat Your Co-Workers: Best Of Blogs’ (Apress). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Published 1948 set in South Africa 1946 Zulu parson Stephen Kumalo travels to Johannesburg from his home village in response to a letter about his much younger sister Gertrude who has fallen into an immoral life. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man. In Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony.”Ĭry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, “We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad many novels from poets, almost all thin. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. ![]() Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.Ĭry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Girl experiences isolation and racist slurs at school. Ma would like to start a restaurant, but they don’t have the money for that. The members of the family face challenges as Vietnamese immigrants in America. ![]() She also longs for her brother’s companionship while her parents ignore her questions about what has happened to him. Meanwhile, the Girl experiences puberty and adolescent crushes. However, they also deeply love one another and are inseparable from each other. The Girl witnesses violent fights between her Ma and Ba that result in her father slamming his fists into walls and her mother smashing chinaware. Ma works as a seamstress and Ba as a welder, but they’d both rather be doing different things. They live as a family in a red apartment with a large swimming pool that delights Ma and fascinates the Girl, but the landlord fills it in after realizing the children of the mostly non-white, Vietnamese tenants are jumping into the pool from the balcony. But eventually, the Girl’s mother-known as Ma in Vietnamese-reunites with her family. ![]() During the confusion of their departure from Vietnam, the Girls’ mother was left behind on a beach in Vietnam. ![]() |