The 8-book deal would re-publish the first four Amelia Rules! books and see the release of four new ones. The publishing rights to Amelia Rules! were purchased by Simon & Schuster in 2008. Four graphic novel collections of Amelia Rules! were released under Gownley's self-publishing label Renaissance Press. Jimmy Gownley has always had a close circle of admirers, but with the publication of Amelia Rules starting in 2001, he began to receive national recognition, with favorable reviews in Library Journal. The first four issues of Shades of Gray were collected in 1995, in a trade paperback titled Days to Remember, and all 12 issues were collected in 2006 in Black and White Life.
Instead, Gownley turned to a new set of characters with Amelia Rules. Fiction ends on a cliffhanger, but as of 2008 no Part Two has appeared. Included with the graphic novel was a CD of songs, purportedly written and sung by the characters, actually written by Gownley, and performed by a group of hired musicians. In 1998, Gownley published a Shades of Gray graphic novel, titled Fiction, Part One. Gownley called his publishing company Lady Luck, Ltd. Twelve additional issues, starting over with #1 (1993) and titled Shades of Gray Comics and Stories, had national distribution in the low thousands of copies, with color covers and black and white interior art. Two issues (#0 and #1), self-distributed in an edition of about 100 copies, were published in 1988-89 while the artist was still in high school. His first published work was Shades of Gray, which he self-published. He grew up in the small town of Girardville, Pennsylvania and started to write and draw his own comics at an early age.
1972) is an American comic book writer/artist best known for his award winning comic book Amelia Rules.
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