Diary of a Teenage Girl

Phoebe Gloeckner

Biographies & Memoirs

Frog, Ltd.

Phoebe Gloeckner's first book collects her highly praised autobiographical accounts of a teenage girl's loss of innocence through sex, drugs, rape, and AIDS. This edition includes eight pages of new material. Long respected as one of the finest and most original of today's underground comics artists, Gloeckner shows both technical artistry and tremendous range—from her sly, lurid, and brilliantly colored posters for rock groups to her textbook-quality medical illustrations; from her sharp naturalistic juxtapositions for The Atrocity Exhibition (J.G. Ballard) to the signature comics for which she is best known. Pages include both black and white and color comics, some that were published before in obscure comic books, and some of her classics in addition to new stories. In detailed, nuanced panels, these strips depict the isolation, horror, and disappointment—but also the revolutionary, transformative power—of young women trapped in circumstances ringed with drugs and sexual abuse. Gloeckner continues as a major literary and visual artist.

A Child's Life and Other Stories

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Frog Books

Cartooning. Art. In this first collection, Phoebe Gloeckner offers an array of both hyper-real and wildly surreal cartoons and drawings mirroring conjunctions between anatomical landscapes and far emotional journeys. "Many cartoonists today mine their personal lives for subject matter. Phoebe Gloeckner achieves what few of them can; she makes the autobiographical universal. Her finely crafted drawings and emotionally powerful story-telling ability combine in this terrific collection to tell us painful, sympathetic and hilariously human truths. Read this book. Find out why comics are art" - Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead. "[Gloeckner is] one of the most widely admired perpetrators of the tradition ... [her work] expresses adolescent unease, steeply angled and densely stippled" - The New York Times.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

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