Potential: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag by Ariel Schrag
Potential: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag Ariel Schrag ebook
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 9781416552352
Format: pdf
Page: 232
I'll miss Slave Labor's edition of Ariel Schrag's high-school freshman aubobio comic Awkward. The rudimentary cover art was charming, Thus, where the guys are all about (tragic, repetitive, ultimately self-satisfied) disengagement, Schrag's comics are a chronicle of connection. Potential: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag Review. In my research I stumbled upon Ariel Schrag's high school chronicles, the first of which is Awkward and Definition which are sort of a visual journal of Schrag's freshman and sophomore years in high school. She sold photocopies to her fellow students at the time. Ariel schrag В· art В· events, spacer. Potential: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag. Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag By Ariel Schrag Touchstone, April 2009, $16 One of the nice things about reviewing for graphic novel by Ariel Schrag. This book includes Awkward, about Schrag's I can't wait for the new printing of Potential next month! "Science is my life!" heroine Ariel proclaims early on in Potential, and it's true. Far fewer are actually written during those years. 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. Using comic strip format, Schrag documented her experiences as she went through her high school years in Berkley, California during the mid-90s. Whether it's the cute boy in her gym In Schrag's later stories like Potential, all of the free-floating obsession and desire coalesces into a harrowing miasma. Many memoirs both inside and outside the world of comics cover the author's high school years. They feature arcs on Schrag's evolving sexual identity, her romantic and platonic relationships, her parents' crumbling marriage, her personal academic quests, and how the comic comes to dominate her thoughts and interactions. Each of the volumes in Schrag's series was created in the summer of the year it chronicles. Her freshman ( Grade 9) year is appropriately summed up I look forward to the final installment of Schrag's high school chronicles, Likewise, which was published earlier this year. She began illustrating tales of her life while a ninth grader and had previous published Awkward and Definition and Potential, the latter having been nominated for an Eisner Award, and is currently being developed into a major motion picture with Schrag herself handling the screenplay.