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Cece Bell

American author and illustrator

Cecelia Carolina Bell[1] (born December 26, 1970, in Richmond, Virginia) is an American author, cartoonist, and illustrator. Most well known for her graphic novelEl Deafo, Bell's work has appeared in The Atlantic, Vegetarian Times, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Working Woman, Esquire and many other publications.

Biography

Bell suffered hearing loss as a child due to a case of meningitis. As a result, she had to get used to using bulky and prominent hearing devices around her school-age peers.

Bell attended the Paier College of Art as an art major and went on to get a graduate degree in illustration and design at Kent State University in 1991. She became a freelance commercial artist, illustrator, and designer for an array of projects before beginning her career as a full-time author-illustrator.

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El Deafo

Main article: El Deafo

El Deafo is based on Bell's own childhood. She wanted there to be a handbook for hearing people so they knew how to understand and communi

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Cece Bell

children’s author-illustrator

Cece Bell has published over a dozen children's books, including the Sock Monkey series. El Deafo, published in 2014, is her most personal book. It's more of an adult comic-strip-format memoir. All the characters appear as stylized rabbits, a twist that enables both hearing-aid cords and earpieces from the Phonic Ear body-pack aid to be clearly visible at the same time. "The Phonic Ear hearing aid and microphone set-up made me feel like a superhero with superpowers! . . . I didn't usually feel like a superhero, though. I felt like a confused kid. Was I deaf? And what did that mean? These questions are the true gist of the book."

Many of us have grown up wearing heavy and visible hearing aids, been mainstreamed, and experienced embarrassment and desiring only to fit in, to belong. While this doesn't sound like great comedic material, Bell has managed to frame her experience in such a way that all readers can identify with her. El Deafo manages to be true-to-life, from a kid's perspective, and hilar

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Cece Bell

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Born(1970-12-26) December 26, 1970 (age 54)
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
OccupationWriter, cartoonist, illustrator
EducationPaier College of Art
GenreChildren's literature
Years active1991–present
SpouseTom Angleberger
Children2

Cecelia Carolina Bell (born December 26, 1970, in Richmond, Virginia) is an American author, cartoonist, and illustrator. Most well known for her graphic novelEl Deafo, Bell's work has appeared in The Atlantic, Vegetarian Times, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Working Woman, Esquire and many other publications.

Biography

Bell suffered hearing loss as a child due to a case of meningitis. As a result, she had to get used to using bulky and prominent hearing devices around her school-age peers.

Bell attended the Paier College of Art as an art major and went on to get a graduate degree in illustration and design at Kent State University in 1991. She became a freelance commercial artist, illustrator, and designer for an array of

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