![]() ![]() It might come as a surprise, given the fact that Schrag has been a lesbian icon for half her life, that the title character of her first novel, Adam, is a straight male teen. Her autobiographical works are funny and unusually raw and candid, qualities that would continue to resonate in her scattered later comics and in her writing for the hit television show The L Word. Her comics attend to masturbation, body image, sex, drugs, family, and biology class-to the ups and downs of the teenage world, where every interaction feels negotiated and tentative. The appeal of her comics, which chronicle her own coming out, includes a razor-like attention to details of teenagers’ lives, as well as a richly expressed (you guessed it) awkwardness. Schrag produced a differently titled comic-book series for each year she was in high school- Definition, Potential, and Likewise followed Awkward. A prolific cartoonist, she started publishing her own autobiographical comic-book series, Awkward, her freshman year at Berkeley High, in 1995. Ariel Schrag, now in her mid-thirties, has been a force in gay pop culture since she was fourteen. ![]()
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