Vancouver library goes graphic, picking cartoonist as writer-in-residence
VANCOUVER — A library in British Columbia is colouring outside the lines with its writer-in-residence program and showing people that literature can be more than words on a page.
Cartoonist Miriam Libicki is the Vancouver Public Library’s writer-in-residence for 2017, marking the first time the library has named a graphic novelist to the role since the program began in 2005.
Comics have captivated Libicki since childhood, but she didn’t think she could create them herself until after she left the Israeli army and went to art school in Vancouver.
There, Libicki struggled to explain the intense experience to others until she turned a diary entry into a comic.