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Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise chronicle my four years at Berkeley High School. I wrote each book during the summer after the school year I was documenting. The books cover crushes, band obsessions, new friendships, drinking and smoking pot, my obsession with science, coming out as bi, coming out as gay, falling in love, losing my virginity, my parents’ divorce, and the personal and social complications of writing about my life as I live it.

Potential was nominated for an Eisner Award.

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The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag are a scathing and meticulously documented autobiographical triumph” – Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

"One of the best pure storytellers I have ever read, in any medium."
The Comics Journal

"Schrag's autobiographical comics illustrate adolescent life with unwavering energy, unrelenting sarcasm, and unabashed detail."
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Sinful Cynthia is a choose-your-own-adventure that I wrote with my friend Toby.

You are Sinful Cynthia, and you inhabit a world full of strippers, serial killers, naughty nurses and crooked cops. Danger lurks around every corner in your quest for pleasure, but nothing will stop you… Tonight it’s either come or die trying! 18 and over only.

 
           
     
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Stuck in the Middle - 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age is an anthology that I edited and contributed to about middle school. It features comics by Gabrielle Bell, Joe Matt, Dan Clowes, Lauren Weinstein, Ariel Bordeaux, and many more.

Stuck in the Middle was selected for New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age 2008.

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  "Excellent" – New York Times Book Review

"An honest, acutely perceptive compendium of cartoon black humor."
Booklist (Starred Review)

Short Comics. I am currently working on a collection of short comics. The comics are a mix of fiction, non-fiction, and autobiography. The collection will include many new works as well as comics that have been published in anthologies and magazines.

 
           
     
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