Ariel Schrag

Ariel Schrag
File:Ariel Schrag.jpg Ariel Schrag at the WeHo Book Fair 2010
Born	(1979-12-29) December 29, 1979 Berkeley, California
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
Notable works	Definition, Awkward, Potential, Likewise
http://www.arielschrag.com/

Ariel Schrag (born December 29, 1979) is an American cartoonist and television writer who achieved critical recognition at an unusually early age for her autobiographical comics.

Career

While attending Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California, Schrag self-published her first comic series, Awkward, depicting events from her freshman year, originally selling copies to friends and family. Slave Labor Graphics subsequently reprinted Awkward as a graphic novel, followed by three more books based on her next three years of school: Definition, Potential, and Likewise. The books were republished by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in 2008 and 2009. The books tell stories of family life, going to concerts, experimenting with drugs, high school crushes, and coming out as bisexual and later as lesbian.

Schrag was nominated for the 1998 Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent (administered by the Friends of Lulu).

Killer Films is producing a movie adaptation of Potential; Schrag has written the screenplay.

Schrag graduated from high school in 1998. She graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in English in 2003, and has continued to work as a cartoonist.

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

Schrag was a writer for the third and fourth seasons of the Showtime series The L Word'", and for the second season of the HBO series How To Make It In America.

Schrag was listed in The Advocate's list of "Forty under Forty" out media professionals in its June–July 2009 issue.

Personal life

Schrag lives in Brooklyn, New York

Bibliography

• Definition, (1997, Slave Labor Graphics, ISBN 0-943151-14-7)
• Awkward, (1999, Slave Labor Graphics, magazine format)
• Potential, (2000, Slave Labor Graphics, ISBN 978-0-943151-04-5)
• Likewise (2000, Slave Labor Graphics, magazine format)
• Stuck In The Middle (editor), (2007 Viking Press, May, ISBN 978-0-670-06221-8)
• Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag (2008, Touchstone, ISBN 978-1-4165-5231-4)
• Potential: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag (2008, Touchstone, ISBN 978-1-4165-5235-2)
• Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag (2009, Touchstone, ISBN 978-1-4165-5237-6)
• Adam: A Novel (2014, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 978-0-5441-4293-0)

Anthologies

• Juicy Mother, edited by Jennifer Camper, (2005, Soft Skull Press ISBN 1-932360-70-0)
• Juicy Mother 2: How They Met, edited by Jennifer Camper, (2007, Manic D Press, ISBN 978-1-933149-20-2)
• "Dyke March", in How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity edited by Michael Cart, (2009, HarperTeen, 2009 ISBN 0-06-115498-9)

External links

• Official website
• Interview with Ariel on SequentialTart.com
• Ariel Schrag at the Internet Movie Database