"In the Small"

I talked yesterday with local children’s book illustrator Michael Hague, whose first graphic novel, “In the Small,” will be released soon. He was not a comics fan growing up, he says. His mother didn’t let him read comic books because she feared it would make him a juvenile delinquent. But he did read comic strips; Hal Foster’s “Prince Valiant” was a big influence on him. Hague is now at work on another graphic novel with a sci-fi theme.