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* WriteWhatYouKnow: ''Anya's Ghost'' and ''Be Prepared'' both have heavy Russian elements and focus on Russian immigrant girls--both Anya and Vera are a Russian immigrants. ''Be Prepared'' is directly based on Vera's time at Russian culture summer camp.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: ''Anya's Ghost'' and ''Be Prepared'' both have heavy Russian elements and focus on Russian immigrant girls--both Anya and Vera are a Russian immigrants. ''Be Prepared'' is directly based on Vera's time at Russian culture summer camp.camp.
* RaisedByWolves: The titular girl in ''What, Were You Raised By Wolves?'' is exactly this. Because of it she fails to adapt to the human world [[spoiler:and at the end, returns back to the woods]].
* RaisedByWolves: The titular girl in ''What, Were You Raised By Wolves?'' is exactly this. Because of it she fails to adapt to the human world [[spoiler:and at the end, returns back to the woods]].
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: ''Anya's Ghost'' and ''Be Prepared'' both have heavy Russian elements and focus on Russian immigrant girls--Vera is girls--both Anya and Vera are a Russian immigrant. immigrants. ''Be Prepared'' is directly based on her Vera's time at Russian culture summer camp.
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* ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'': A lonely Russian girl makes best friends with a ghost--but it doesn't work out. Won an Eisner Award.
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* ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'': A lonely Russian girl makes best friends with a ghost--but it doesn't work out.ghost and gets more than she planned for. Won an Eisner Award.
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She released her first graphic novel, ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'' in 2011, and has since released several other graphic novels, children's books, and contributed to other books as an illustrator and writer. She also worked at Creator/{{Laika}} doing storyboards (including the animated films ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', WesternAnimation/{{Paranorman}}, ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'', and ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'') before she left the company, and was Head of Story for ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio''.
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She released her first graphic novel, ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'' in 2011, and has since released several other graphic novels, children's books, and contributed to other books as an illustrator and writer. She also worked at Creator/{{Laika}} doing storyboards (including the animated films ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', WesternAnimation/{{Paranorman}}, ''WesternAnimation/{{Paranorman}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'', and ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'') before she left the company, and was Head of Story for ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio''.
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She released her first graphic novel, ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'' in 2011, and has since released several other graphic novels, children's books, and contributed to other books as an illustrator and writer. She also worked at Creator/{{Laika}} doing storyboards (including the animated films ''WesternAnimation/Coraline'', WesternAnimation/{{Paranorman}}, ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'', and ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'') before she left the company, and was Head of Story for ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio''.
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She released her first graphic novel, ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'' in 2011, and has since released several other graphic novels, children's books, and contributed to other books as an illustrator and writer. She also worked at Creator/{{Laika}} doing storyboards (including the animated films ''WesternAnimation/Coraline'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', WesternAnimation/{{Paranorman}}, ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'', and ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'') before she left the company, and was Head of Story for ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio''.
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Vera Brosgol (born 1984) is a Russian-American immigrant writer, illustrator, and comic book author. She was born in Moscow and moved to the United States when she was five years old.
She released her first graphic novel, ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'' in 2011, and has since released several other graphic novels, children's books, and contributed to other books as an illustrator and writer. She also worked at Creator/{{Laika}} doing storyboards (including the animated films ''WesternAnimation/Coraline'', WesternAnimation/{{Paranorman}}, ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'', and ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'') before she left the company, and was Head of Story for ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio''.
Her website is here at [[https://www.verabee.com/ verabee]]. Also has an [[https://www.instagram.com/verabee instagram]].
!!Bibliography:
* ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'': A lonely Russian girl makes best friends with a ghost--but it doesn't work out. Won an Eisner Award.
* ''ComicBook/BePrepared'': A semi-[[{{Autobiography}} autobiographical]] story of a young Vera spending a rough summer at a Russian summer camp.
* ''Leave Me Alone!'': A grandmother, trying to get her knitting done, searches for peace and quiet. A Caldecott Medal Honor book.
* ''The Little Guys'': A children's book about strength in numbers and community.
* ''Memory Jars'': A children's book with the main character trying to preserve everything in jars so as to keep it forever.
* ''Plain Jane and the Mermaid'', Releasing in May 2024, about a plain-looking girl who ends up venturing under the sea to rescue her fiance prince who's been kidnapped by a mermaid.
* ''[[https://www.verabee.com/wolf/ What, Were You Raised By Wolves?]]'': A miniature comic--fully available on her site--about a girl who is RaisedByWolves and struggles to adapt to the human world and its cruelties. Has a DownerEnding.
!! Tropes about her writing and works include:
* DownerEnding: ''What, Were You Raised By Wolves?'' ends with the girl in question [[spoiler:leaving the human world, finding the bones of the young boy that was eaten when she was a child, and then disappearing into the forest.]] The website states that it's "not a very happy story."
* WriteWhatYouKnow: ''Anya's Ghost'' and ''Be Prepared'' both have heavy Russian elements and focus on Russian immigrant girls--Vera is a Russian immigrant. ''Be Prepared'' is directly based on her time at Russian culture summer camp.
Vera Brosgol (born 1984) is a Russian-American immigrant writer, illustrator, and comic book author. She was born in Moscow and moved to the United States when she was five years old.
She released her first graphic novel, ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'' in 2011, and has since released several other graphic novels, children's books, and contributed to other books as an illustrator and writer. She also worked at Creator/{{Laika}} doing storyboards (including the animated films ''WesternAnimation/Coraline'', WesternAnimation/{{Paranorman}}, ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'', and ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'') before she left the company, and was Head of Story for ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio''.
Her website is here at [[https://www.verabee.com/ verabee]]. Also has an [[https://www.instagram.com/verabee instagram]].
!!Bibliography:
* ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'': A lonely Russian girl makes best friends with a ghost--but it doesn't work out. Won an Eisner Award.
* ''ComicBook/BePrepared'': A semi-[[{{Autobiography}} autobiographical]] story of a young Vera spending a rough summer at a Russian summer camp.
* ''Leave Me Alone!'': A grandmother, trying to get her knitting done, searches for peace and quiet. A Caldecott Medal Honor book.
* ''The Little Guys'': A children's book about strength in numbers and community.
* ''Memory Jars'': A children's book with the main character trying to preserve everything in jars so as to keep it forever.
* ''Plain Jane and the Mermaid'', Releasing in May 2024, about a plain-looking girl who ends up venturing under the sea to rescue her fiance prince who's been kidnapped by a mermaid.
* ''[[https://www.verabee.com/wolf/ What, Were You Raised By Wolves?]]'': A miniature comic--fully available on her site--about a girl who is RaisedByWolves and struggles to adapt to the human world and its cruelties. Has a DownerEnding.
!! Tropes about her writing and works include:
* DownerEnding: ''What, Were You Raised By Wolves?'' ends with the girl in question [[spoiler:leaving the human world, finding the bones of the young boy that was eaten when she was a child, and then disappearing into the forest.]] The website states that it's "not a very happy story."
* WriteWhatYouKnow: ''Anya's Ghost'' and ''Be Prepared'' both have heavy Russian elements and focus on Russian immigrant girls--Vera is a Russian immigrant. ''Be Prepared'' is directly based on her time at Russian culture summer camp.
