{"id":1042,"date":"2011-02-25T07:06:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T12:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2013-04-15T14:37:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:37:32","slug":"george-and-bentley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/george-and-bentley\/","title":{"rendered":"George and Bentley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President’s Day was the release party for my new George Washington biography! Mount Vernon<\/a> was fee free that day and had more than 15,000 visitors. My booksigning table was positioned right where the crowds came up from their new underground museum — so this was the first signing I’ve ever had where I was in real danger of being trampled!!!! It was a steady view of torsos for 4 hours, and I signed a LOT of comix . . .<\/p>\n

This is the cover of the book — I’m glad Mount Vernon’s staff chose this idea. It was FUN to draw. I think this and the “Revolutionary City” comic I did for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation are the best history comix I’ve made so far (the GW book is my 29th title!). Can you tell which of the soldiers going in to battle with George is supposed to look like me?? That’s one of the fun things about making your own story — you get to sneak in guest appearances. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

For fun, my friend Wendy suggested I also take a picture of all the research I use to make a comic. So here is a look at MOST of the material that informed my writing and drawing of “George Washington Leads the Way” — I did use Internet resources as well, and the historians at Mount Vernon added some important points as they reviewed the drafts. But this pile of paper gives you a good sense of the second step of the author’s process: RESEARCH!<\/p>\n

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