Child's Life and Other Stories

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 rangefrom her sly, lurid, and brilliantly colored posters for rock groups to her textbook-quality medical illustrations; from her sharp naturalistic juxtapositions forThe 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 disappointmentbut also the revolutionary, transformative powerof young women trapped in circumstances ringed with drugs and sexual abuse. Gloeckner continues as a major literary and visual artist.Gloeckner, Phoebe is the author of 'Child's Life and Other Stories' with ISBN 9781583940280 and ISBN 1583940286.