How did Tomboy change as it went along? You spoke about the things you’d abandoned earlier – did any of those pieces find their way into the book? Tomboy, as a whole, was probably like a year-long process, but writing and drawing it was nine months.
I had to go and hopefully just fix things that didn’t work – and there are still some transitions in the book I’m not super-excited about, but I think, as a whole, it came out really authentic and genuine, just because I had to draw it that quickly. So, one of the good things about working on Tomboy was that when I signed the contract with Zest, who published the book, it had to be done nine months from when I signed the contract, so I didn’t have any time to just get stuck on a part and leave it. There are a couple of books that I’ve probably gotten 40 pages into, and gotten stuck, and not known how to transition to the next part, so I’ve just … left them, which is really depressing, when I think back on it. The idea of sitting down and writing a 200+ page story that no one’s ever seen before – and that no one will see until it’s done, except for editors and whatever – is really daunting, and I’ve had a couple of false starts before. It just so happens that most of my previously published, Top Shelf books, are more like comic collections, and those all consisted of things I had self-published before. I’ve always known that drawing graphic novels was my ultimate goal. Liz Prince: How long did it take to do Tomboy, or how long did it take for me to work up the nerve to sit down and do an entire graphic novel?
The Runout: Tomboy is your first graphic novel. It’s absolutely wonderful, and I was happy to speak with Prince by phone about the process of bringing Tomboy to the page. There were points where I laughed until I cried, to say nothing of scenes that left me bawling. It’s a moving tale, encompassing everything from gender stereotypes to the punk scene to the cruel pangs of adolescence. Liz Prince is an artist and illustrator whose work covers a wide spectrum: she’s done album covers for criminal pop-punk quartet Masked Intruder, as well as stories and covers for the wildly popular Adventure Time comic, to say nothing of her award-winning autobiographical comic Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed? Her first graphic novel, Tomboy, will be released by Zest Books on September 2. Liz Prince On Her New Graphic Novel, ‘Tomboy’ Bryne Yancey Posted on August 25, 2014
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