Marketing
$15,000 marketing and publicity budget
Co-ops available and encouraged
Endorsements sought from Miranda July, Sheila Heti, Dave Eggers,
George Saunders, Alison Bechdel, Jillian Tamaki, Isabel Greenberg,
Dan Clowes, Wendy MacNaughton
Goodreads giveaways and paid social media promotions on Electric
Literature's Facebook and Twitter feeds
Publicity
Potential for mainstream literary coverage in addition to graphic
novel & art-specific outlets
Coverage in women's magazines (Bust, Bustle, Lenny, etc)
Parenting media (possibility of a WaPo "On Parenting" piece or
something for NYT Well Family)
The Comics Alternative (podcast), "BookTubers" that cover graphic
novels (like Geek & Sundry), Graphic Novel Reporter (through Book
Report Network), etc.
Web animations, essays from Elizabeth about her research for the
book, essays from Deb about Parrots for Dummies
Book seems like a strong contender for Book of the Month, book club
and librarian picks
Awards
ALA Great Graphic Novels list
Alex Awards
Eisner Awards
Ignatz Awards
LA Times Book Prize for graphic novel
Deb Olin Unferth is the author of four books, including Wait Till
You See Me Dance and Revolution, a finalist for the National Book
Critics Circle Award. Her fiction has appeared in Harper's
Magazine, The Paris Review, Granta, and Tin House. She lives in
Austin, Texas.
Elizabeth Haidle is a freelance artist based in Portland, Oregon.
She is the creative director and regular contributor at Illustoria
magazine, while writing and illustrating a nonfiction graphic novel
series and raising her teenage son.
Praise for I, Parrot by Deb Olin Unferth and Elizabeth Haidle
"[Unferth's] language is sly and bitterly funny, matched in mood by
Haidle’s monochromatic, inkwash–style artwork, which plays up the
story’s whimsy as well as its sadness."" —The New York Times Book
Review
"I don't know anything about birds, but I do know good comics, and
this is one."" —Vulture
"Unferth dexterously juggles pathos and humor in her debut graphic
novel, an intimate and contemplative reflection on the slow
revelatory dawning of what it means to care for something—or
someone. . . . Unexpectedly funny, sad, scary, affirming and
totally engrossing."" —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[A] winningly surreal collaboration. . . . Unferth impresses with
strong characterizations and a tightrope tragicomic tone. Haidle's
spare, cartoony, Mary Blair–ish illustrations, impressively
rendered in grayscale—especially the 20 different species of
parrots and the characters' permanent, 'rosy' blush—and her
retro–futuristic, all–caps style perfectly complement the colorful,
off–kilter tale of a woman redirecting the sails of her story.""
—Booklist
"Haidle brings more than just design expertise. Her simple, crisp
grayscale images set the tone for the story: a dreamlike softness
evoked by the mid–20th century modernist cartoon figures, overlaid
with the textural complexity of watercolor, but stripped of
color."" —Multiversity Comics
"A deftly observed, sad, and ultimately hopeful fable about
civilization, wildness, and love.” —Molly Crabapple, author of
Drawing Blood
"I, Parrot beautifully renders the weird in–betweenness of life. It
illuminates the messy: custody battles, insecticide hazards, the
hairpin paths of love.” —Leanne Shapton, author of Swimming
Studies
"A lovingly crafted world of gray, at once complex and weightless.”
—Roman Muradov, author of Lost and Found
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