![]() How many other books have you written – and are they anything like El Deafo? I had to use it!) I changed my teachers’ names and the names of most of the friends… mostly because I knew I wasn’t being fair to them (a kid’s memories are not always fair, after all), and I wanted to protect their identities and feelings. (I asked permission first - even though it meant finally admitting to Mike Miller that I had had that big crush on him! But “Mike Miller” is the perfect all-American-boy-next-door name. Martha Claytor and Mike Miller are also real names. ![]() The names of the people in my family are all real, for example. Some of the characters’ names are real, and some aren’t. Photograph: Cece Bellĭid you use your friends’ real names and characters or change them a bit for the book El Deafo? ![]() Cece Bell’s heartwarming graphic novel is based on real life events from her own childhood. ![]()
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