Education
Columbia University.
(Ariel Schrag continues her tumultuous passage through hig...)
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. Written during the summer following her junior year at Berkeley High School in California, Potential recounts Ariel's first real relationship and first-time love with a girl, her quest to lose her virginity to a boy, and her parents' divorce -- as well as the personal and social complications of writing about her life as she lives it. Along the way she hangs out with her favorite teacher, obsesses over clothes, gets drunk, smokes pot, and tries to connect the biology she reads about in textbooks with the biology she's living.
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(Ariel Schrag captures the American high school experience...)
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. During the summer following each year at Berkeley High School in California, Ariel wrote a comic book about her experiences, which she would then photocopy and sell around school. Some friends thrilled to see themselves in the comic, others not so much, but everyone was interested. Awkward chronicles Ariel's freshman year, and Definition, her sophomore year. With anxiety in excess and frustration to the fullest, Ariel dives in -- meeting new people, going to concerts, crushing out, loving chemistry, drawing comics, and obsessing over everything from glitter-laden girls to ionic charges and the constant pursuit of the number-one score. Totally true and achingly honest, with every cringe-inducing encounter and exhilarating first moment documented -- Awkward and Definition is an unflinching look at what it's like being a teenage girl in America.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416552316/?tag=2022091-20
(Ariel Schrag concludes her turbulent ride through high sc...)
Ariel Schrag concludes her turbulent ride through high school in the long-awaited final volume of her acclaimed series of compelling and strikingly honest autobiographical graphic novels. Set in Berkeley, California, Likewise takes us into the holy grail of teenagers, every bit as terrifying as it is liberating: senior year. Struggling with a major longing for her ex-girlfriend who has gone away to college, her parents' post-divorce relationship, anxiety over the future, and all the graphic details of her complicated life, Ariel sets out to document everything and everyone. And when she discovers James Joyce, a whole new world of creativity opens up to her. Written with unabashed honesty, insight, and humor, Likewise is a brave account of one teenage girl's search for truth.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416552375/?tag=2022091-20
Columbia University.
Slave Labor Graphics subsequently reprinted Awkward as a graphic novel, followed by three more books based on her next three years of school: Definition, Potential, and Likewise. The books were republished by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in 2008 and 2009. The books tell stories of family life, going to concerts, experimenting with drugs, high school crushes, and coming out as bisexual and later as lesbian.
Killer Films is producing a movie adaptation of Potential.
Schrag has written the screenplay. Schrag graduated from high school in 1998.
She graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor"s degree in English in 2003, and has continued to work as a cartoonist. The documentary Confession: A Film About Ariel Schrag was released in 2004.
lieutenant explores the then-23-year-old Schrag"s world in which she "negotiates fame, obsesses about disease, and discusses the way she sees as a dyke comic book artist."
Schrag was a writer for the third and fourth seasons of the Showtime series The L Word"", and for the second season of the Home Box Office series How To Make lieutenant In America.
Schrag was listed in The Advocate"s list of "Forty under Forty" out media professionals in its June–July 2009 issue. Schrag lives in Brooklyn, New New York
(Ariel Schrag captures the American high school experience...)
(Ariel Schrag concludes her turbulent ride through high sc...)
(Ariel Schrag continues her tumultuous passage through hig...)
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