{"id":3693,"date":"2015-03-12T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T06:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2015-03-11T18:26:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T00:26:13","slug":"a-peek-into-roller-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3693","title":{"rendered":"A Peek into Roller Girl<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“IS THAT ALL YOU CAN DO?!? SHOW ME YOUR WARFACE!!”<\/em><\/center>
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\nLast week at Kirkus<\/em>, I had a lovely conversation (here<\/a><\/strong>) with Victoria Jamieson<\/a><\/strong> about her graphic novel, Roller Girl<\/em> (Dial, March 2015). Today, she shares some early sketches and final art (without text) from the book. <\/p>\n

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Sketches of book’s opening spread<\/em>
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“RRRR-OLLER DERBY?!”<\/em>
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“… At first I couldn’t tell what was going on —
just a bunch of skating, hitting, and falling.”<\/em><\/center>
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Early sketch: “‘Ooh, and Rainbow Bite takes a big hit in turn two!'”<\/em><\/center>
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Early sketch: “C’mon, it’s time to go, weirdo!”<\/em>
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“Everyone ready? On the track!”<\/em>
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“The jammer was obviously the most important player. She had to be fast.
And wily. She was the star — just like Rainbow Bite. …”<\/em><\/center>
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“‘Try this on! This looks cute!'”<\/em><\/center>
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“‘Let’s do this.'”<\/em><\/center>
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“… And a massive hit to Asteroid!
Braidy Punch just launched her way into orbit!”<\/em><\/center>
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ROLLER GIRL. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Victoria Jamieson. Published by Dial, New York. All images here reproduced by permission of Victoria Jamieson.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“IS THAT ALL YOU CAN DO?!? SHOW ME YOUR WARFACE!!”   Last week at Kirkus, I had a lovely conversation (here) with Victoria Jamieson about her graphic novel, Roller Girl (Dial, March 2015). Today, she shares some early sketches and final art (without text) from the book. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}