Jenni was also living in the city, and when she was working on her first Boston Jane novel in 1999 or 2000, she asked me to do some proofreading and historical fact-checking, so I started helping out with that. MH: After I graduated from college, I moved to New York City and was working as an editor for Country Living magazine. But they’d ask, “What are you going to do when you get to college?” I ended up double majoring in English and art at Penn State, and was the political cartoonist for the newspaper there.Īnd did you continue on an arts path when it came time to launch a career? Still, they were always encouraging me, and let me take whatever art classes I wanted to in high school. They both enjoyed reading, and Dad was a big comics fan, but they both were really unsure about anyone going into the arts and being able to make enough money to live. Our parents were medical people-Mom was a nurse and Dad was a doctor. Jenni seemed to like them, and hers was the only feedback I really got. Since my bedroom was right across from his, I’d be the first to see them.ĭid your big sister give you favorable reviews, Matt? At the time, it was a thing for kids to decorate their doors to reflect their personalities, and Matt would post his comics of space aliens on his door. When he was in fifth or sixth grade, he began drawing aliens from outer space-lots of them. From an early age, I loved to read, and Matt was always drawing and cartooning. We are two of five children, and I’m the only girl, born right in the middle. Holm: In a way, I guess they probably were. Looking back, would you say the seeds for your creative collaboration were sown in your childhood? The prolific duo talked to PW about how they came to collaborate, how that process works, and about their new Babymouse endeavor. In September, Scholastic’s Graphix imprint will publish Swing It, Sunny, a sequel to the Holms’s 2015 middle-grade novel, Sunny Side Up. Also due from Random on Independence Day is the siblings’ Comics Squad #3: Detention, and the publisher will release I’m Scared, the fourth installment of the My First Comics board-book series, in August. This summer and fall, the Holms have multiple pub dates to celebrate, beginning with the July 4 debut of Babymouse Tales from the Locker #1: Lights, Camera, Middle School! In this graphic novel,Babymouse, who is now in middle school, makes a calamity-filled attempt to write and direct a sweeping cinematic epic. Launched by Random House in 2005, the 20-book series has more than three million copies in print worldwide. Their first joint project was the graphic-novel series Babymouse, starring a headstrong young mouse with messy whiskers and a wild imagination. Holm and Matthew Holm, siblings who have published novels separately (Jennifer is a three-time Newbery Honor recipient for Our Only May Amelia, Penny from Heaven, and Turtle in Paradise and Matthew co-wrote Marvin and the Moths with Jonathan Follett) and have collaborated on a number of children’s books series. There is very little creative down time for Jennifer L.
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