Welcome to the blog tour for Özge Samanci's Dare to Disappoint (available today)! Here's the official word on the book:
Growing up on the Aegean Coast, Özge loved the sea and imagined a life of adventure while her parents and society demanded predictability. Her dad expected Özge, like her sister, to become an engineer. She tried to hear her own voice over his and the religious and militaristic tensions of Turkey and the conflicts between secularism and fundamentalism. Could she be a scuba diver like Jacques Cousteau? A stage actress? Would it be possible to please everyone including herself?
In her unpredictable and funny graphic memoir, Özge recounts her story using inventive collages, weaving together images of the sea, politics, science, and friendship.
On each stop of the tour, Özge is highlighting a different art material that was used in creating Dare to Disappoint, with today's material being mustard. Take it away, Özge!
I don’t enjoy drawing backgrounds so developed an experimental approach for composing backgrounds. I created some of the backgrounds in Dare to Disappoint with regular art materials such as Indian ink, artline pen, acrylic paint, markers, etc. I painted some of the backgrounds with food. I used blueberry, grape, pomegranate, tangerine, black tea, coffee, cinnamon, turmeric, and mustard. For example, I used mustard to create a night sky. I painted a paper with with water mixed with mustard, waited until dried, scanned it, and inverted this image in Photoshop. The only problem of this method, it takes forever to clean the scanner.
About the Author:
Özge Samanci is an artist and an associate professor. She was born in Izmir, Turkey, and currently lives in Chicago, Illinois. Dare to Disappoint is her debut graphic novel.
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Follow the rest of the blog tour for Dare to Disappoint!
November 16: Supernatural Snark
November 17: Forever Young Adult
November 18: Teen Lit Rocks
November 19: Kid Lit Frenzy
November 20: The Book Wars
November 23: Love is Not a Triangle
November 24: Fly to Fiction
November 25: Watch Connect Read
November 26: Stacked
November 27: SLJ Good Comics for Kids
Dare to Disappoint is available now.