In a comic she drew before bedtime one night, K. Woodman-Maynard manifested a project that would occupy her for the next couple of years.

The author and cartoonist, who lives in Minneapolis with husband Mike Schowalter and a one-eyed Vizsla named Leif, writes a “diary comic” each night. Creator of a graphic novel version of “The Great Gatsby” that came out in 2021, she craved a new project. So Woodman-Maynard drew a portrait of herself in a Wonder Woman-like position, with arms akimbo.

“Two days later, the call came,” said Woodman-Maynard, who also writes her own original comics.

A couple years, 1,400 hours of work and a pile of gorgeous watercolor paintings later, that call resulted in “Natalie Babbitt’s ‘Tuck Everlasting’: The Graphic Novel.” Celebrating the book’s 50th anniversary, i

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