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March 26, 2019 12:46 pm
Interview: Shelbi Webb, 13 Year Old Author of the Comic Book Sugar Glider
March 26, 2019 12:46 pm | Leave your thoughts
In this bonus episode of Pop Culture Leftovers Rebekah and Melissa interview Shelbi Webb, one of the youngest published female comic book authors in the world.
Shelbi Webb is 13-years-old and resides in a small Utah community. She has always loved art and finding ways to be creative. Shelbi started writing for the local county paper in 2016 as a junior reporter attending Comic Conventions. Though she is still a child, Shelbi has personal experience with bullying and suicide of close acquaintances. She has also seen friends and family battle with mental illness, self-image, addiction, and many other issues. Because of this, Shelbi wanted to make a difference and help young adolescents struggling with similar challenges. The antagonists in the comic are personifications of the problems facing teens today. Sugar Glider’s most important power is an enlarged empathy. Instead of fighting the antagonists, she helps them. Mental Health is a big part of the comic and the importance of counseling is addressed and used to assist the struggling adolescents.
Shelbi launched Sugar Glider in 2018 and has been a guest at several comic conventions in the Western US and featured in local and national news stories. She is also an ambassador for two non-profit organizations; one focuses on building up young women to be tomorrow’s leaders and another on loving everyone with an anti-bullying message. Shelbi continues to travel the country spreading her very important message of love and acceptance. Shelbi is the subject of a pilot episode for BYU TV as a documentary of amazing things kids are doing around the world. She has produced a “Comic with a Cause”…Sugar Glider. The first story arc of the comic features the popular band X Ambassadors. Shelbi is determined to create change in young people’s lives.
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