B.C. writer’s graphic novel depicts the spiritual journey of a Cree-Métis teen
Wanda John-Kehewin is no stranger to the printed word, but she’s the first to admit that writing a graphic novel was a whole new experience.Dreams: Visions of the Crow
“I knew what Damon’s character was going to be like because I remember as a kid trying to make my own life normal. I lived with my mom on and off and she was an alcoholic. So I would try and make some sort of normal for us during that time. I would organize things. I would just clean up…to make some sort of normal out of a not so normal situation,” said John-Kehewin.
“I told myself anything that I write is publishable. So that was my goal. It just sort of went from there. Maybe putting things in the universe helped. I just felt really…almost cheated that I had to take so long to heal, that I almost needed to double the speed of what I wrote to catch up,” she said.
“It’s not like writing a script because your word choice, your choice of diction, has to be spot on because you can’t have more than 15 words in a bubble. Fifteen words is a lot. If you’re going to have some person making a speech, you have to pick the most important part of that speech and use a picture to enhance,” she said.
John-Kehewin is confident that Damon’s story could be told just as effectively as a YA novel, but she also believes that employing graphics opens up the story to those who are more visual learners.
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