A Child's Life and Other Stories

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.