there's some good stuff in the world! give it a shot!
shake girl - the stanford graphic novel project, 2008
and for those of you who like to have a more intimate relationship with your reading material and prefer to hold your stories, might i suggest 'a child's life and other stories' by phoebe gloeckner. it's hard to read. and by hard i don't mean difficult, i mean it's got some very intense and hurtful, disturbing stuff in it. but it's honest and fearless and important and not at all self-pitying. it is tremendous and necessary work. it was also banned from libraries for a while and if that isn't reason enough to pick it up, i don't know what is.
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Thanks for these recommendations!
I would also recommend Skim to you:
http://www.amazon.ca/Skim-Mariko-Tamaki/dp/0888997531
I loved Perepolis!
oooooh! skim! looks good! pay day's a comin'!
i haven't read perepolis yet but one of my friends RAVES about it! i'll will ask her if i can borrow it.
I saw a interview with Phoebe Gloeckner awhile ago, Angela I'm gonna put that one on my book list :)
oooooh! i'll try to track it down on youtube. the book is very powerful... i won't spoil it for you with details but i think you'll respond to it with the same intensity i did. it's very much a reckoning with the past, a way to work through, the telling of bad secrets.
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