When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!' - Raina Telgemeier 1 Share Now -
I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end. - Raina Telgemeier 2 Share Now -
When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!' - Raina Telgemeier 3 Share Now -
All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension. - Raina Telgemeier 4 Share Now -
