Author Michael Buckley compares the heroines of his long-running book series “The Sisters Grimm” — the younger Daphne and big sis Sabrina — to FBI agents Mulder and Scully of “The X-Files.”

“Daphne is the optimist, and Sabrina is the skeptic,” Buckley says during a recent video interview. “But Sabrina’s made sacrifices. She’s had to grow up really fast so that Daphne can maintain that optimistic point of view.”

Buckley lives in Brooklyn, New York, but he was raised in Akron and eventually graduated, in 1996, from Ohio University in Athens. He’s on our computer screen this late afternoon to discuss the TV series adaptation of “The Sisters Grimm.”

Like the books, the animated show is set in the town of Ferryport Landing. It is there that Sabrina (voiced by Ariel Winter) and Daphne (Leah N

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