false 57722 0 0 111262 189729901X 9781897299012 35 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171649498m/111262.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171649498s/111262.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111262.Lucky 3.53 195 A wry daily comics journal of urban ennui
 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.</DIV>]]> 57722 3.59 361 69 2006 3061857 1897299575 9781897299579 19 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3061857.Cecil_and_Jordan_in_New_York_Stories_by_Gabrielle_Bell 3.67 79 Short stories, including the adapted-to-film original Cecil and Jordan in New York</DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV><DIV>Gabrielle Bell splits her cartooning time between creating wry sketchbook autobiographical comics, such as those included in her 2006 graphic novel, Lucky, and working on more detailed fictional short stories. This collection represents her short comics work that has been published in various anthologies over the past five years, including Kramer’s Ergot, Mome, and The D+Q Showcase Book Four. The surrealist title story, in which a young woman turns herself into a chair so as not to be too much of a bother to those around her, is being adapted into a short film, Interior Design, by director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep) as part of the forthcoming Tôkyô! trilogy set for fall 2008 release.</DIV></DIV>]]> 57722 3.59 361 69 2008 111263 1891867431 9781891867439 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171649498m/111263.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171649498s/111263.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111263.When_I_m_Old_And_Other_Stories 3.68 74 57722 3.59 361 69 2003 111264 1891867679 9781891867675 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171649499m/111264.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171649499s/111264.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111264.Hi_Horse_Omnibus_Volume_1 3.27 11 57722 3.59 361 69 2004 1021690 1891867954 9781891867958 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1021690.The_Collected_Lucky 4.50 2 57722 3.59 361 69 2006 3061858 1897299591 9781897299593 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3061858.Kuruma_Tohrimasu 0.0 0 Interior Design (directed by Michel Gondry; co-written by Michel Gondry and Gabrielle Bell), this small art book is a collection of drawings and photographs made during the production of the film. Published as part of D+Q's Petits Livres series, this limited-print-run book is a perfect companion volume to Cecil and Jordan in New York: Stories by Gabrielle Bell.]]> 57722 3.59 361 69 81586 3.76 21 5 2008