Faith Erin Hicks' latest graphic novel Inbetweens stars twin sisters Ash and Sloane, both of whom are gifted young artists who have shared the dream of working in animation since they were little girls. As the book opens, they are about to attend a summer-long animation program for high school students at the prestigious Ormidale College, and, better yet, one of their heroes will actually be one of their instructors!They make new friends, like Cameron, a boy who excels at drawing backgrounds and animals but is quickly bored by drawing the same things over and over, and Nisha, perhaps the most naturally talented person at camp, although at least one of her instructors is quite dismissive of her (Whether this is because she is one of the few young women in the program, or because of her darker skin, Hicks never makes it explicit).The twins also meet a variety of mentors, one quite good and one quite bad, they are exposed to new kinds of animation beyond the Disney and Disney-like…
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