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Book with Sherman Alexie is getting great, great reviews. My art is “hilarious”<\/a> (Santa Cruz Sentinel) and “adds levity and summary to the story line”<\/a> (The Oregonian).<\/p>\n Also, from a recent interview<\/a> with Sherman in the Seattle Times:<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Q: And were the cartoons your idea?<\/p>\n A: Yeah. When I started writing it as a novel, for some reason in the first paragraph, I made [the main character] a cartoonist. I sent Ellen Forney, who is a friend of mine, about a page, I think, and I said, “Can you draw a cartoon of this?” About five minutes later, it came back over the e-mail. So she was a part of this five minutes into its creation.<\/p>\n I’m getting angry, though, because people are assuming I had nothing to do with the illustrations, that the press hired her. It was a really collaborative effort. Some of them I dictated, some of them we did together, some of them she did on her own.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n I’m glad Sherman is noting that, because he and I did work together really intensely. (And, I did<\/em> do a lot of it on my own!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Book with Sherman Alexie is getting great, great reviews. My art is “hilarious” (Santa Cruz Sentinel) and “adds levity and summary to the story line” (The Oregonian). Also, from a recent interview with Sherman in the Seattle Times: — Q: And were the cartoons your idea? A: Yeah. When I started writing it as a … Continue reading “More Absolutely True reviews”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}