Ariel Schrag

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Ariel Schrag (born December 29, 1979 in Berkeley, California) is an American cartoonist who has achieved critical recognition at an unusually early age for her autobiographical comics.

While attending high school in Berkeley, California, Schrag self-published her first comic series, Awkward, depicting events from her freshman year. Awkward was subsequently reprinted as a graphic novel by Slave Labor Graphics, followed by three more books based on her next three years of school: Definition (ISBN 0-943151-14-7), Potential (ISBN 0-943151-04-X), and Likewise (ongoing, not yet collected). These books told stories of family life, going to concerts, experimentation with drugs, high school crushes, and coming out as a lesbian.

Schrag graduated Berkeley High School in 1998. She went on to study at Columbia University in New York City, and has continued to work as a cartoonist.

The documentary "Confession: A Film About Ariel Schrag" was released in 2004. It explores then 23 year-old Ariel Schrag's world in which she "negotiates fame, obsesses about disease, and discusses the way she sees as a dyke comic book artist." [1]

Schrag is also a contributor to the ongoing queer comics anthology Juicy Mother, edited by Jennifer Camper, and released in 2005 and 2007.

Schrag was a writer for the Showtime lesbian-focused series The L Word for seasons 3 and 4. ^[1]

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Juicy Mother 2: How They Met, edited by Jennifer Camper, Manic D Press, October 2007 ISBN 987-1-933149-20-2
Stuck In The Middle, Viking Press, May 2007 ISBN 9780670062218
Juicy Mother, edited by Jennifer Camper, Soft Skull Press, 2005 ISBN 1-932360-70-0
Potential, Slave Labor Graphics, 2000 ISBN 0-843151-04-X
Awkward, Slave Labor Graphics, 1999 (magazine format)
Definition, Slave Labor Graphics, 1997 ISBN 0-943151-14-7
Awkward and Definition, Slave Labor Graphics, 2008