This week YA author Kim Dwinell took over our Twitter as a part of our weekly Thursday Twitter Takeover. Kim Dwinell is the author of The Science of Surfing: A Surfside Girls Guide to the Ocean. (See YEM’s interview of Kim Dwinell here.) See highlights from the takeover below.
Hi! I'm Kim Dwinell and I write and illustrate the 🏄♀️ Surfside Girls graphic novel series with @topshelfcomix and @IDWPublishing.#YAAuthorTakeover pic.twitter.com/DzTtCpaveb
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
This is my #YAauthorTakeover! Follow me on Twitter at @BeachKimD #Comics #Surfing
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
I'm totally inspired by being out in the ocean. Do any of you #surf or #paddleboard? 🧜♀️What's your favorite way to enjoy the ocean?🏄♀️🐬🌊#YAauthorTakeover #Comics #surfing
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
'The Science of Surfing' is my new book – due out soon… Lots of sciency ocean stuff told with comics and pictures 🐠🐳🐡🦈Did you know dolphins are related to hippos? Pelicans can blow up their skin like bubble wrap when they dive.https://t.co/QbJNG6eJGH pic.twitter.com/3k4bnvfGSI
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
🌊Learn more about 🏄♀️"The Science of Surfing: A Surfside Girls Guide to the Ocean here… https://t.co/KbckrUZZoz #YAauthorTakeover @IDWPublishing @topshelfcomix
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
Wouldn't you rather be out in the surf? 🌊🌊🌊Saltwater hair and sun on your skin? 🌞🌞🌞'The Science of Surfing' has a whole chapter on how to surf. Longboard v shortboard. Which wetsuit when? What u need to know.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
I 💖 💖💖writing stories and ✏️drawing pictures. I worked in Animation before this – The Swan Princess, 🐱Cats Don't Dance, #Hercules, #Mulan, #Tarzan and some CD-ROM work on #spiderman back in the day.
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
Animation taught me to SIT STILL and draw draw draw. That's how you get stuff done.#YAauthorTakeover #animation
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
✏️I mostly drew girls in animation. I drew Meg in #Hercules, Sawyer in Cats Don't Dance, and Mulan in #Mulan. ✏️💖✏️I still draw girls- Sam and Jade in Surfside Girls!🏄♀️https://t.co/QbJNG6eJGH
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
🏄♀️I surfed last week at Doheny and this 🐢🌊turtle kept popping up in the lineup. Sooo cute and so curious. 💖THIS is what inspires my books.🦭🐳🐬
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
WAVES ARE ENERGY. 🌊🌊🌊Another fun fact from 'The Science of Surfing.' Think about it. Surfing is the relationship between u and that energy. So good.🏄♀️#YAauthorTakeover pic.twitter.com/k75nLOrjJ3
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
What inspires you? I 💖 the old 2-D Disney movies. Nancy Drew. Scooby Doo. Any fans?#YAauthorTakeover @BeachKimD
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
Anyone read 'Blankets' by Craig Thompson? It's what set me on the path to do comics. A whole film in a book. I'd never seen anything like it.#comicbooks #comics #YAauthorTakeover
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
🐡🐠Ever seen a bait ball? Lots of ocean predators work together to round up millions of bait fish. Nom! 🍴Everyone feasts but the predators don't eat each other. 🦈🦭The Science of Surfing. pic.twitter.com/i50475uVQs
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
The coolest thing about making comics is all you have to do is start. Then keep going.✏️@topshelfcomix @IDWPublishing #YAauthorTakeover #comics #comicbooks
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
I try to stay balanced – getting out in the ocean for exercise and mental break, and sitting in my office making stuff. Too much of either will leave me feeling unbalanced. pic.twitter.com/sk2Hw3Kmk6
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
Sam and Jade – the Surfside Girls – are inspired by me and my best friend Melissa. pic.twitter.com/sWEq3c1KKx
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
Melissa and I learned to surf by taking out boards on the bus from the Laguna Hills Mall 🚌to Doheny State Beach 🏄♀️all summer when we were girls. so many adventures!🌟🌟🌟
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
I've met sooo many cool people because of ✏️ comics. Such a great group to be in. I consider myself very lucky
🍀🍀🍀#YAauthorTakeover— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
The hardest part of making a graphic novel is that it's lonely. Just you, your pencil ✏️ and your paints. For months. #YAauthortakeoverhttps://t.co/QbJNG6eJGH
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
Did you know that the moon is mighty, and is responsible for the tides? Tides are super important to surfers. From the Physics chapter of 'The Science of Surfing…' #YAauthorTakeover pic.twitter.com/tCkK2IAnhP
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
Learn more about The Science of Surfing at – – https://t.co/xlHWwCi2eF#YAauthorTakeover
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
🏄♀️To learn more about my new book, or about any of the Surfside Girls adventures 🐬, visit https://t.co/QbJNG6eJGH
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
🏄♀️Find at more about me – @BeachKimD at https://t.co/IyYnX4rMKj
Thanks for letting me take over, @YoungEntmag #YAauthorTakeover pic.twitter.com/YG76cJGBsG— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) September 30, 2021
