Terri Libenson

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Terri Libenson
Terri Libenson at Sydney Writers Festival.jpg
Libenson at the Sydney Writers Festival, 2025
Born1980 (age 44–45)
Kingston, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation(s)Cartoonist, children's book author

Terri Libenson (born 1970) is an American comic strip and children's book author known for her newspaper comic strip The Pajama Diaries which took the 70th Silver Reuben Award for best newspaper comic strip and for her graphic novels for young teenagers.

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Life

Libenson was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania in 1970. [1]

Libenson wrote for the greeting card company American Greetings.[ citation needed ] She created The Pajama Diaries in 2006. [2] [3] She also wrote the graphic novel for children Invisible Emmie [4] and later Positively Izzy.

In May 2016 Libenson won the 70th annual Silver Reuben Award for her newspaper comic strip, The Pajama Diaries, after voting by her fellow cartoonists at a ceremony in Memphis. [5]

She stopped writing her main cartoon in 2019 [1] to write children's books. [6] She has written a series of books known as "Emmie and Friends" aimed at 12-14 year olds. Each of the books feature one of the Lakefront Middle School students who also appears as co-stars in the other books. [7] The early characters were girls but Tyler gets a look-in in a later book where his problems are solved by Emmie - at the cost of her own friendships. [8]

In 2020 her book Becoming Brianna was chosen as one of the youth graphic novels that defined the year by The Washington Post . [9]

Publications

References

  1. 1 2 "Kingston cartoonist ends comic to try other projects". Access NEPA. Retrieved September 9, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Positively Terri- The Voice Behind The Comic Strip". clevelandmagazine.com.
  3. ↑ "Terri Libenson's comic 'The Pajama Diaries' ending after 14 years". clevelandjewishnews.com. Archived from the original on August 24, 2023. Retrieved August 24, 2023.
  4. 1 2 "BOOK REVIEW: Middle school graphically defined in 'Invisible Emmie'". Mitchell Republic. December 11, 2017.
  5. ↑ "King Features Cartoonist Terri Libenson wins 'Best Newspaper Comic Strip' at NCS Reuben Awards Ceremony". King Features Syndicate. May 31, 2016. Archived from the original on October 4, 2023. Retrieved September 9, 2023.
  6. ↑ Alverson, Brigid. "Q & A with Terri Libenson". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on August 24, 2023. Retrieved August 24, 2023.
  7. 1 2 "Art or sport? It doesn't always have to be simply one or the other". The National. May 23, 2021. Archived from the original on August 24, 2023. Retrieved August 24, 2023.
  8. ↑ McIntyre, Barbara. "Book Talk: 'Hot and Sour Suspects' a tasty murder mystery". Akron Beacon Journal. Retrieved September 9, 2023.
  9. ↑ Cavna, Michael (November 19, 2020). "2020 graphic novels and comic books: Five trends that defined the year". The Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286. Archived from the original on March 7, 2023. Retrieved September 9, 2023.
  10. ↑ Barron, Christina (July 19, 2021). "KidsPost Summer Book Club: 'Just Jaime' by Terri Libenson". The Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved September 9, 2023.
  11. ↑ McIntyre, Barbara. "Book Talk: 'Becoming Brianna' fourth in 'Emmie and Friends' series of graphic novels". Akron Beacon Journal. Archived from the original on August 24, 2023. Retrieved August 24, 2023.
  12. ↑ Libenson, Terri (September 29, 2020). You-Niquely You: an Emmie and Friends Interactive Journal. HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN   978-0-06-299838-5.
  13. ↑ "Remarkably Ruby: There's more to everyone than meets the eye". Tucson, Ariz.: KGUN-TV. May 11, 2022. Archived from the original on August 24, 2023. Retrieved August 24, 2023.
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