I liked Blankets a lot! Diary of a Teenage Girl is a bit more explicit (so if you are triggered by sexual abuse and rape, be cautious.)

I can’t speak for the movie, but the book is also about— the sexual abuse of a friend by a much much older mentor figure, a sexual relationship with a best (female) friend, and parental neglect.

Kinja is not letting me star you, but yeah. The key to friends with benefits the friends part. I don’t want to marry you; I just want to have coffee and check in and make sure you’re not a serial killer.

Do it. It’s a bit intense, but it up there with Fun Home as one of my favorite graphic novels ever written.

I don’t know if parents being naked would help with body image, but my conservative Republican artist grandma dragged me to lots of life drawing classes (starting at age 12, when she deemed I was old enough) and it helped immensely. It just sort of helps seeing people like people, with all their wrinkles and folds and…

The worst for me was guys who seemed mildly interesting for a hookup but who were suddenly aghast that I wanted to meet for coffee or dinner or whatever because THATS NOT NO STRINGS WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU YOU. YOU MUST BE A CRAZY STALKER AND WANT TO GET MARRIED.

What mazzieD says— In my short foray into OKC, I mentioned I was maybe fine with NSA hookups and I got guys saying, “I’m in your city and staying at the airport hotel, can you just come over for a few hours?”

I respect that view. Interestingly enough, the author has (had— I think they are adults now) forbid her teenage daughters from reading her work until they were over 15 or 16. Not that with the internet that would help much, but I remember her mentioning that. She also has some comics that very graphically deal with…

If you liked the movie (I haven’t seen it yet!) you should read the comic book by Phoebe Gloeckner.

Have you even read any of her work? She was one of the best professors I had in college. And she isn’t like that at all. The book makes clear that the relationshop is creepy, maybe more so than the movie (haven’t seen the film yet). She also has written pretty graphically about (what is implied to be her own) child…

I’ve really been looking forward to it!

Yeah, I’m actually curious how they will handle it, but the book is great (if a little difficult to stomach sometimes).

Gloeckner was professor of mine in college. I’ve been looking forward to this for a while. I would urge people to read the source material before getting up in arms about the content of the film.

It’s based on an autobiographical comic book. The author (Pheobe Gloecker) was a professor of mine in college, and her work often deals with difficult themes, but I personally find her comics fantastic.

For those commenting on the nature story: Phoebe Gleockner (who wrote the graphic novel on which this is based) based on her own life story. She was a professor of mine in college, and her work is fantastic, but very difficult to stomach. It’s clear in the book that the relationship is creepy; not sure how it will be…

And then Errol Morris could make a documetary about the whold thing!

I would love to see him in a debate (maybe on the subject of healthcare) go on a rambling account of walking across France to prevent his friend from dying.

I scrolled through too fast, and you got my hopes up that Werner Herzog might actually be running for president.

Fellow Mr. Hyde fist bump!

It’s true— it’s a more difficult story to tell, and you need to be a better writer to tell it. But I think these stories are still important to tell, because I lot of addiction narratives make it seem like after one relevatory experience your life will change, when in reality there may be a lots of starts and stops.…