![]() She lost much of her hearing when she was just four and a half years old after she contracted meningitis. And you just cannot top rabbits when it comes to cuteness. As a kid, she felt rather conspicuous with her hearing aid cords going up to her ears, and showing these cords going way up over her head into her rabbit ears is rather close to how she believed that others have to perceive her. She believed that it’d be a perfect visual metaphor to depict herself as being the only rabbit in a whole crowd of rabbits whose ears just don’t work. ![]() She is also hearing impaired.Ĭece represents her characters as rabbits in “El Deafo” since they have huge ears. She’s got a graduate degree in design and illustration from Kent State University. While she’s an author and an illustrator, she’s unfortunately not a jazz pianist. Tom then polished up the writing and Cece worked on doing the pictures. They came up with the basic idea for “Crankee Doodle” together coming up with the basic page layout and idea on a car road trip. She is the illustrator of the successful “Sock Monkey” series from Candlewick and Crankee Doodle by Tom Angleberger, her husband. Cece Bell was born in the year 1950 in Richmond, Virginia. ![]()
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