‘Super Sorda’, Cece Bell’s graphic novel, which is now a cartoon series

The memoirs in the form of a graphic novel of the American writer Cece Bell, Super Deaf (The Deafo), who received the Newbery prize for children’s literature and were ‘bestsellers’, now arrive at the home of their audience as an animated miniseries, which opens on January 7 in Apple TV.

The fully released miniseries follows in the footsteps of the insightful girl Cece, who loses her hearing and needs to find her inner superhero because if going to school and making new friends is always hard, when she wears a bulky hearing aid hanging on the chest seems practically impossible.

But Cece has an alter ego, Super Sorda, a character who will help her take pride in what makes her extraordinary, just like her creator, Cece Bell.

The original Apple series is produced and written by Will McRobb (Harriet the Spy, Harriet the spy), co – produced by Claire Finn for Lighthouse Studios, and directed by Gilly Fogg (Bob the Builder, Bob and his friends), and Bell herself is serving as an executive producer.

It also has an energetic soundtrack, from Katie Crutchfield, aka Waxahatchee, which will have a simultaneous release on the same day 7; the single Tomorrow is now available in streaming.

The graphic novel arrived in Spain in 2017, with a lot of individual stories about Bell’s childhood feelings, a complex narrative to which she dedicated five years in which drawing was the most expensive, according to the author at the time. Interview with Eph.

He also explained that he worked “very hard” to tell this story from the point of view of a child, not from that of an adult.

“That meant trying to show some very complicated feelings that I don’t necessarily agree with right now. It also meant portraying myself with a bad attitude about certain things, like sign language “, confessed the now executive producer of the series.

As for humor, the main tool against the harshness of many of the situations that the protagonist Cece goes through, Bell believes that this also makes disabilities “less frightening for children and adults.” (I)