Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.
Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Barsoom books and I have never had a close encounter. But they were clearly significant to artist Ty Templeton, which he’s been exploring in his Bun Toons series and commentary. In 1975, at the age of twelve, young Templeton came across a John Carter comic book and quickly discovered its appeal.
J. L. BELL is a writer and reader of fantasy literature for children. His favorite authors include L. Frank Baum, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper. He is an Assistant Regional Advisor in the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and was the editor of Oziana, creative magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club, from 2004 to 2010.
Living in Massachusetts, Bell also writes about the American Revolution at Boston 1775.
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