“But people really responded to it and I really loved doing it so I decided to do all four. “I didn’t have a specific vision to begin with I just wanted to write a book about my freshman year,” she says. She channeled her feelings into her artwork. It was one of the most significant changes of my life,” Schrag says. “I went from being in a class of 13 to one of more than 1,000. She attended a small private school for nine years before moving on to a public high school. “I found Maus in the house when I was 9 and thought it was amazing,” she says. Schrag created her first comic strip as a child her father was a visual artist who read and collected various types of comic books and graphic novels. “I knew if I started college I wasn’t going to be able to finish.” “Nothing was more important to me,” she says.
Schrag took a gap year to finish the series before starting at the College. The High School Comic Chronicles comprises three books: Awkward and Definition (9th and 10th grade, combined in one edition), Potential (11th grade) and Likewise (12th grade). But Schrag first made a splash with a series of graphic memoirs she wrote about her high school years, while she was still living them. Her most recent work, Part of It, is a “painfully funny” recollection of her formative years growing up in idyllic, progressive Berkeley, through her early 20s in Brooklyn. Would you want to relive your awkward younger years? Really relive, as an art form Novelist and artist Ariel Schrag ’03 has made a career of turning her most uncomfortable, transitional life moments into relatable, award-nominated graphic memoirs.
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