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Ariel Schrag

Ariel Schrag
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Ariel Schrag

Ariel Schrag is also the author of the autobiographical comic books Potential, which was nominated for an Eisner Award, and Likewise. She divides her time between Los Angeles and New York.

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Q. What is your greatest achievement?
A. My children. Oops, I haven't had them yet. I mean..."my work" - no, wait, my friendships.
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My life in 8 words: "I feel like this is a trick question"
March 9, 2009
March 26th 7:00 - 8:30 PM Performances from STUCK IN THE MIDDLE and POTENTIAL as well as a preview of my new book, LIKEWISE -...
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Awkward and Definition has won an award
Aug 26, 2009
Likewise is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 07, 2009
Likewise will be released on April 07, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Apr 07, 2009
Likewise is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 07, 2009
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Ariel Schrag Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Everything weird is good Q. What’s your fantasy profession? A. I'm living the dream Q. What are your 5 favorite songs? A. 100,000 fireflies - Magnetic Fields, Sunshine - Pailboy, Wouldn't it be Nice - The Beach Boys, My Name Is - Eminem, Stratford-On-Guy - Liz Phair Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be? A. Disneyland. Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing? A. drawing Learn more about Ariel Schrag

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Boston Globe, January 12, 2012
...DIXFIELD, Maine The book, "Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age," by Ariel Schrag was challenged last year by the parent of a middle school student in RSU 10 who objected to the book's contents. The district serves several towns in the...
Sun-Journal, December 14, 2011
...At issue is the 2007 book, “Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age,” written by Ariel Schrag. Becky Patterson, mother of a Buckfield Junior-Senior High School middle school boy, asked that the book be removed from the library because...
Huffington Post, October 16, 2011
...extreme self-revelation. Exposing oneself through art is "a very Hebe-y thing to do," the Eisner Award-winning artist Ariel Schrag has told me. And since we don't use confessional boxes, comics panels make a handy substitute. Fast-forward 40 years. While...
Huffington Post, October 16, 2011
...extreme self-revelation. Exposing oneself through art is "a very Hebe-y thing to do," the Eisner Award-winning artist Ariel Schrag has told me. And since we don't use confessional boxes, comics panels make a handy substitute. Fast-forward 40 years. While...
Washington City Paper, May 2, 2011
...had kind of a second coming in high school and got hooked up with really dyke-y cartoonists, like Ariel Schrag and Alison Bechdel , and other auto-bio greats like Craig Thompson . Blankets had just come out when I was 15, and reading that book was eye...
National Post, March 22, 2011
...Ariel Schrag was an imaginative California kid who was into art and comics before most of her schoolmates learned how to multiply. Only it isn’t her wild imagination that’s...
National Post, March 21, 2011
...Ariel Schrag was an imaginative California kid who was into art and comics before most of her schoolmates learned how to multiply. Only it isn’t her wild imagination that’s...
The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log, July 14, 2011
...handy label, not a definition). In it six very fine artists – Peter Kuper, Bryan Talbot, Posy Simmonds, Ariel Schrag, Martin Rowson and Lynda Barry – get to pick out their favourite fellow artist working in the comics medium. It won’t surprise...
Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources, May 22, 2011
...it. Plus, it also shows some of the less trendy sections of the neighborhood. “SF Dyke March” by Ariel Schrag is a very funny look at a lesbian out on the streets of the Mission, and Schrag’s cartoony art fits the tone of the story very well....
, May 3, 2011
...and her comic Office Bitch . She told the Washington City Paper she's inspired by Alison Bechdel and Ariel Schrag , which I can totally see. For more on Katie, visit her blog . Today in Lesbianish TV: The Ellen DeGeneres Show , Rescue Renovation (DIY...
Arts Desk, May 2, 2011
...had kind of a second coming in high school and got hooked up with really dyke-y cartoonists, like Ariel Schrag and Alison Bechdel , and other auto-bio greats like Craig Thompson . Blankets had just come out when I was 15, and reading that book was eye...