This empowering autobiographical story belongs right next to Raina Telgemeier’s Smile (2011) and Liz Prince’s Tomboy. Animation Short Adventure Follows a kid as she loses her hearing and finds her inner superhero. Bell’s bold and blocky full-color cartoons perfectly complement her childhood stories-she often struggles to fit in and sometimes experiences bullying, but the cheerful illustrations promise a sunny future. She keeps her newfound superpower a secret and daydreams about being El Deafo, a super alter ego whose deafness makes her powerful. In 2014, she published the book El Deafo, which she had written based on her own life and the traumas that she had gone through. The book depicts the childhood of Cece Bell, who lost her hearing at a young age and required the assistance of a Phonic Ear hearing aid while she was growing up to be the person who she is now. Her most personal book, El Deafo (Amulet Books, 2014), is a New York Times best seller and won a Newbery Honor Award from the American Library Association in February 2015. Aside from making school easier, the Phonic Ear gives Bell a superpower: when her teachers forget to doff the microphone, she can still hear them anywhere in the school (including the bathroom!). Cece Bell Birthday: Decem(52 years) HomeTown: Richmond, Virginia, United States Cece Bell is a well-known author from the United States whose works may be found in the category of juvenile fiction. Bell, who is a 1998 graduate of the Master of Arts program at Kent State’s School of Visual Communication Design, has written and illustrated more than a dozen children’s books. In this graphic memoir, she tells readers about the friends and family who help her adjust, the frustration she feels when learning to communicate, and the devices she uses to assist her hearing, most notably the Phonic Ear, a large machine that connects to a microphone her teachers wear and amplifies sounds in her hearing aids. When cartoonist Bell was four years old, a case of meningitis left her severely deaf.

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