5/30/2023 0 Comments Ariel schrag books![]() ![]() “I found Maus in the house when I was 9 and thought it was amazing,” she says. Schrag created her first comic strip as a child her father was a visual artist who read and collected various types of comic books and graphic novels. “I knew if I started college I wasn’t going to be able to finish.” “Nothing was more important to me,” she says. ![]() Schrag took a gap year to finish the series before starting at the College. The High School Comic Chronicles comprises three books: Awkward and Definition (9th and 10th grade, combined in one edition), Potential (11th grade) and Likewise (12th grade). But Schrag first made a splash with a series of graphic memoirs she wrote about her high school years, while she was still living them. Her most recent work, Part of It, is a “painfully funny” recollection of her formative years growing up in idyllic, progressive Berkeley, through her early 20s in Brooklyn. ![]() Would you want to relive your awkward younger years? Really relive, as an art form Novelist and artist Ariel Schrag ’03 has made a career of turning her most uncomfortable, transitional life moments into relatable, award-nominated graphic memoirs. ![]()
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