![]() ![]() Jarrett Krosoczka did hundreds of initial sketches, detailed line drawings and colored backing pages for “Hey, Kiddo,” his longest work ever - over 300 pages. Jarrett Krosoczka compares an earlier drawing from “Hey, Kiddo” with the finished scene from the book. At right is a letter his mother, Leslie, wrote him when he was boy. It’s his first book for young adult readers. Jarrett Krosoczka pages through his new book, “Hey, Kiddo,” a graphic memoir of his early life. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLISĪn early draft from a scene in the prologue of “Hey, Kiddo,” in which a teenage Jarrett Krosoczka visits a cemetery with his grandfather, Joe. Some early self-portraits from “Hey, Kiddo” of Krosoczka as a young boy and a teenager. In his graphic memoir “Hey, Kiddo,” Jarrett Krosoczka’s first book for young adult readers, he tells a coming-of-age story that also tackles his mother’s heroin addiction. His grandfather always supported his dream of being an artist, he said. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLISĪ picture of Joe Krosoczka, Jarrett Krosoczka’s grandfather, in Krosoczka’s Easthampton studio. ![]() His grandparents, Joe and Shirley, who raised him, are in the middle photograph. Photographs of Jarrett Krosoczka’s family. ![]()
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