The high school comic chronicles book series by ariel schrag includes books potential, likewise. Schrag completed each work in the summer after each respective school year, not only putting her own life squarely under the microscope, but also telling the stories of her. The comics describe schrags experiences with family life, going to concerts, experimenting with drugs, high school crushes, and coming out as bisexual and later as lesbian. Potential was nominated for an eisner award and likewise was nominated for a lambda literary award. Potential is ariel schrag s memoir of her junior year in high school, and its brilliant enough to make you pretty frukken antsy to get your paws on the followup material. A novel 2014, houghton mifflin harcourt, isbn 9780544142930. Ariel schrag s truelife series of work which began with freshman year in awkward and continued in sophomore years definition is as brave as it is funny. She chronicled her life at berkeley high school for five years.
Ariel schrag continues her tumultuous passage through high school in the second book of her acclaimed series of frank, insightful, and painfully honest. Ariel schrag author of adam meet your next favorite book. The high school comic chronicles of ariel schrag 2009, touchstone, isbn 9781416552376. Potential by ariel schrag overdrive rakuten overdrive. Adam was made into a feature film directed by rhys ernst and produced by james schamuss symbolic exchange. See the complete high school comic chronicles series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Third and final volume of the high school comic chronicles potential, 2008, etc. The high school comic chronicles of ariel schrag high school chronicles of ariel schrag by schrag, ariel 2008 paperback on. Ariel schrag is also the author of the autobiographical comic books potential, which was nominated for an eisner award, and likewise. The second volume of the high school comic chronicles finds the author dealing with all sorts of personal challenges, both at home and at school. Berkeley is ages ahead of vancouver and it shows strongly even though schrag doesnt ov this is book two in ariel schrag s series of autobiographical graphic novel chronicling her high school years. Potential is ariel schrag s best work to date, showing a confidence and power in her art and storytelling which other cartoonists dont acheive until they are much older. Because of their history of spandex and funny animals, comics creators have long yearned for greater respectability, and thanks to the literary memoir. The high school comic chronicles of ariel schrag, by schrag, ariel 2008 paperback.
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Potential book by ariel schrag official publisher page. Her muse is the lesbian side of new yorks gay subculture, but choosing a shy, awkward teen boy as the. Potential the high school comic chronicles of ariel. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read adam. Ariel schrag s book is a kind of adam in wonderland, with its young hero exploring worlds usually kept underground. Ariel schrag captures the american high school experience in all its awkward, questioning glory in awkward and definition, the first of three amazingly honest autobiographical graphic novels about her teenage years. The high school comic chronicles of ariel schrag, awkward and definition. Ariel schrag has books on goodreads with 26480 ratings. Potential by ariel schrag meet your next favorite book. From the author potential is a true account of ariel schrags junior year of high school. Ariel schrag continues her tumultuous passage through high school in the second book of her acclaimed series of frank, insightful, and painfully honest autobiographical graphic novels. This installment has an epic scope and scale as it deals with everything transpiring in schrag s life, mind and art while she prepares for the transition from. Potential is ariel schrags best work to date, showing a confidence and power in her art and storytelling which other cartoonists dont acheive until they are much older.
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Written during the summer following her junior year at berkeley high school in california, potential recounts ariel s first real relationship and firsttime love. Schrag then published three more graphic novels based on her next three years of school. Her debut novel, adam, was published by houghton mifflin harcourt in june 2014. Her parents first found out the details of many of these experiences through reading the books. She is the author of the novel adam, and the graphic memoirs awkward, definition, potential, likewise, and part of it. Best known for mining her own adolescence in her trilogy of graphic memoirs, here schrag potential, 2008, etc. The high school comic chronicles of ariel schrag high school chronicles of ariel schrag by ariel schrag 20080506 ariel schrag on. Ariel schrag books list of books by author ariel schrag. The artists senior year is full of profound changes, and its no accident that the strip invokes ulysses, infinite jest and the brothers karamazov. Noah berlatsky sits down with ariel schrag, the prolific creator of comics. Written during the summer following her junior year at berkeley high school in california, potential. The high school comic chronicles of ariel schrag high. This book covers her 11th grade and was written after her junior year and based on notes she had taken during the time along with journal entries.
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