![]() ![]() ![]() I worked for Disney for about 10 years, and made connections with other people in children’s publishing, such as Calista Brill (who had been at Disney before First Second Books started up.) When the Disney work ended, I did freelance book design for First Second and other publishers like Scholastic, and so when I had an idea for my first kids book, Hippopotamister, I already had a way in to pitch it to people. Graduating from art school with a portfolio that was mostly comic book-related design work soon led to a job doing design and production on comics for Disney Adventures Magazine. I went to School of Visual Arts in NYC for graphic design, but while I was there I started self-publishing comics with a friend, Dave Roman. ![]() After getting in trouble for it (the school and parents didn’t like that kids were giving me their lunch money for the art) my mom told me about copyrights, and so I created my own comic book characters and started selling photocopies of them. As some readers may already know, I got my start making comics as a little kid, by selling drawings of Garfield in third grade. John Patrick Green: Hi, Betsy! Thanks for having me. ![]()
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