Her date ignores her at the school dance and then says, “I guess you shouldn’t fall in love with every nice guy you meet?” Callie responds, “Well then, I guess I’ll just have to find some JERK to take me home, huh?” before opting to walk home alone.
Callie is the head of set design for her middle school’s spring musical, and such an ambitious theater geek that she explodes a cannon onstage in a perfect comic book “KA-BOOM.” This former tech director can testify to the authenticity of Telgemeier’s backstage world, where friendship and romance flourish in the intimate monotony of snack runs, flat-painting and cue-calling.Ĭallie works hard on the tech crew while facing the standard tween tribulations: her little brother snoops in her room, clueless grown-ups ask stupid questions, and cute boys are distractingly fickle. Her latest, and more sophisticated, hobbies-before-hotties book, “Drama,” trades braces for another staple of geek youth - the theater tech crew. And that affected the way other people saw me!” Cynical, Telgemeier is not. The book had a hyper-sincere moral: “The more I focused on my interests, the more it brought out things I liked about myself. A sixth grader and a Girl Scout, Raina trips and knocks her front teeth out of place, which leads to a four-and-a-half-year ordeal of braces, false teeth, retainers and headgear. Telgemeier’s charming “Smile,” an autobiographical account of her junior high orthodontic treatment, was a best seller when it came out in 2010. But this is a narrative belied by the thriving field of age-appropriate books epitomized by the nice-girls-finish-first graphic novels of Raina Telgemeier, poetic illustrator of middle-school life. The parenting-book world is flooded with jeremiads about how tween culture breeds sociopaths and prostitots, ergo we should unplug the Internet.
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