Graphic Novels & Comics

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A Window to the World

Written by Oliver Chin, Foreword by Phoebe Gloeckner
Price: $12.95
Frog Books

Set during the confusion following the terrorist attacks of September 11, the story begins when a history teacher asks his students to write a report based on an interview with someone who has a different viewpoint from their own. As they fan out into the community and encounter people of diverse...

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

An Account in Words and Pictures

Written by Phoebe Gloeckner
Price: $39.95
Frog Books

"I don't remember being born. I was a very ugly child. My appearance has not improved so I guess it was a lucky break when he was attracted by my youthfulness." So begins the story of Minnie Glover in The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Saddled with a narcissistic mother, a...

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

An Account in Words and Pictures

Written by Phoebe Gloeckner
Price: $22.95
Frog Books

So begins the wrenching diary of Minnie Goetze, a fifteen-year-old girl longing for love and acceptance and struggling with her own precocious sexuality. Minnie hates school and she wants to be an artist, or maybe a speleologist, or a bartender. She sleeps with her mother's boyfriend, and yet is too shy...

A Child's Life and Other Stories

Written by Phoebe Gloeckner, Illustrated by Robert Crumb
Price: $18.95
Frog Books

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...