Sara Ryan

Yes, I am just about to take off again for parts known and unknown.
2 pm Saturday, November 10th, I’ll be doing a Teen Writing Workshop at the Lynnwood Library in beautiful Lynnwood, Washington. (Thanks for making such a cool graphic advertising it, Lynnwood Library webfolk!)
Exactly seven days later, at 2 pm Saturday, November 17th, I’ll [...]

September 28th, 1997: I was on a train from Portland back to Ann Arbor. I’d just interviewed for a job. I’d done my first (and so far last) storytime. I read, among other things, Caps For Sale, a story featuring caps (as you might suspect) and monkeys.

September 28th, 2007: I wear Bill Mudron’s cap at [...]

Years ago, Steve told me, “Comics people are vampires. Eventually, they turn everyone around them into comics people, too.”
He was right. Clearly, it worked on me. And now I’m proud to say I’ve turned my first victim. Einbahnstrasse Waltz, a standalone story involving a high school orchestra trip to Vienna, drinking, angst, and navigational difficulties, [...]

1. Chris Beckett interviewed Steve and me about “Me and Edith Head” at The Pulse.
2. Cynthia Leitich Smith interviewed me about The Rules for Hearts at Cynsations.
3. If you’ve got a link to Periscope Studio’s blog, please please please update the address to periscopestudio.blogspot.com. The former address, mercurystudio dot blogspot dot com — a relic [...]

Via Journalista, colleencoover and castellucci: “Now available from TCJ.com through the month of September: A podcast recording of the “Comics Are Not Literature” panel from the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con, featuring Douglas Wolk (moderator), publisher Dan Nadel, and writers Sara Ryan, Cecil Castellucci, Paul Tobin and Austin Grossman. Click here to download the 50.8MB MP3 [...]

…that after a delightful weekend at retreat, and an extremely less than delightful flight back (2.5 hours on the tarmac, 3 understandably distressed toddlers, 1 elderly couple loudly concerned about the possibility of their cruise ship leaving without them) I have returned, not home, but to the studio.
And speaking of the studio, and thus of [...]

I will be around, with minicomics and some Rules and Empresses, sharing space with Erika Moen and Kip Manley. Come say hey and buy things from them! (And me.)
Personal to gordonzola and anarqueso (and, I suppose, anyone else who is cheese-interested) Today I ate two shockingly great cheeses: Anomalous, from Vermont, and Isle of Mull [...]

Those of you who were curious about the “Comics Are Not Literature” discussion at Comic-con, check out Zack Smith’s report over at Newsarama. Thanks, Zack, for writing it up!

A short story, illustrated by Dylan Meconis. Why Battle Hall Davies won’t be attending any high school reunions. Takes place between the prose novels Empress of the World and The Rules for Hearts.
 
Ordering info for the print version coming soon.
 
 

Two days in a row, I saw Medusa hiding out in the women’s room.
She was sitting on the floor, leaning against the mirrored wall with her wig off. The wig, with snakes in an especially fetching shade of electric blue, was next to her, like a well-cultivated houseplant or pet.
But aside from a few encounters [...]