LUCKY - DRAWN&QUARTERLY (2006) 409239

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ENGLISH BOOK
Gabrielle Bell fascinatingly documents the mundane details of her
below-minimum-wage, twentysomething existence in Brooklyn, New York,
with a subtle humor. Her simple, unadorned drawing style, heavy
narration, and biting wit chronicle transient roommates who communicate
only through Post-it notes; aspiring artists who sublet tiny rooms in
leaky, greasy broken-down border-house loft apartments crawling with
bugs, cats, and bad art. Bell tackles a string of forgettable, unrelated
jobs--including nude modeling, artist's assistant, art teacher, and
jewelry maker--that only serve to bolster her despair, boredom, and
discomfort in her own skin.Bell's self-scrutiny leads her to dream
sequences that allow her to rise above her banal actuality and
hyperawareness. She fantasizes about her vision of a perfect world as
she becomes the accomplished artist and world traveler she longs to be.
Bell's daily comics allow her to escape the harsh, judgmental gaze of
the world and the monotony of daily life. Her unpolished art speaks to a
desire to record all the messy details while the pain and confusion are
still fresh.

Coming of age amid the zine revolution, cartoonist
Gabrielle Bell has been creating her comics to much acclaim, even
winning an Ignatz Award for the self-published serialization of Lucky.