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From the Art of Bart to the Writing Art:
Former Simpsons animator and director tells her
story.
Prescott, Valley, Arizona-October 31st, 2008.
New author Jen Kamerman-Jenkins finally made her
dream come true and made the official jump from the
world of drawing and illustrating by publishing her
first book, “The Vanishing Point,” a memoir, and
publishing it on Lulu.com, the online marketplace for
digital content.
After discussion with her family, Jen decided to
make the jump at her husband’s urging to “get those
words” out of her head, and quit her job so that she
could stay home and write full-time. It seemed scary at
first, having a computer screen to stare at and no
structure like she had known in twenty-plus years of
working for other people and working on other people’s
ideas.
Liam Tumelty comments: “Even while she was drawing for a
living, it seemed like writing was the thing that she
always gravitated towards. I told her that if she wanted
to set herself free, she needed to make the switch
completely and give into the fact that she would make
more impact with the power of her words.”
The book actually started as some tentative blog-type
rants on myspace, the social networking site, and when
the comments and support began to pour in from all
sides, Jen’s husband pointed out that she seemed to have
hit a nerve, and perhaps it was finally time to tell her
story. She pulled the writing off the site,
concentrating full-time on turning “The Vanishing Point”
into a book, a raw, journal-style glimpse into her
twenty-year fight with eating disorders.
Ms. Kamerman-Jenkins said, “I have spent my whole life
working for others, most notably for twelve seasons as
an animator and director on “The Simpsons” television
show. It was the time, though; to do something
completely original that has been in my head for almost
as long as I have been alive. Now it’s out there, and
perhaps I can help those who are suffering the same way,
or those that love someone who suffers in this dark
world that is little understood.”
The book is called
“The Vanishing Point,” a double entendre about
how in art lines of perspective converge into one small
point on the distant horizon, and the sometimes-deadly
journey for a “perfection” that can never be reached. It
is available at
www.Lulu.com, at her storefront:
www.lulu.com/content/4716577
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