Lucky

I'm trying to read more independent comic book artists/writers so that I don't get stuck reading about Batman and Superman all the time.  I especially want to read more female writers, who seem far too scarce in the medium.  First up this year is a semi-autobiographical account of Gabrielle Bell's introduction and rise in the art industry.  Well, that may be too simplistic a description of the book.  It also shows her insecurities, loves, failings, trials, and everything else that may seem to plague a twenty-something living in New York with little direction.

Her art is simple, yet eerily effective in its simplicity, and her stories are everyday, yet compellingly executed.  This is a gem of a book that chronicles three different periods in her twenties and how she was trying to be a professional artist.  Part of me did want her to explain her artistic choices as a sort of treatise of her style.  As is, this is a lovely graphic narrative with the occasional touch of humor.