What has it been like working with Holly Black and Scholastic?
It’s pretty hands-off for the most part. I get a little direction from Holly, and a little from my editors, but all really good input. Except there was one instance where Scholastic made me remove a naked butt. But hey, that’s the big publishing world. More eyes on you means more pickiness. It’s a trade-off. I can get away with almost anything in the regular comics world, ‘cause it’s small potatoes.”The Good Neighbors Book One: Kin” cover sans trade dress The only really difficult part has been the covers. They require a lot of redraws. This is partly because they need to pass through a lot more editors, and as the representative image to sell the book, they matter more than any other single element. But mostly it’s because a Scholastic book, graphic novel or no, has a lot more copy on it than a comic. On a comic, the title logo is very much a secondary element to the image, and everything else is really just an afterthought. But with “Good Neighbors,” the title is the most important p
