Truth is Fragmentary: Travelogues & Diaries

Truth is Fragmentary: Travelogues & Diaries

<div><p><B>Cartoonist Studio Prize Shortlist 2014</B></p><p><I>For an impoverished cartoonist, I do an awful lot of international traveling.</I></p><p>Raw, bare-boned, scathingly funny dispatches from the renowned comic diarist Gabrielle Bell, with biting cultural commentary mixed with her signature introspective, self-deprecating humor, and surreal digressions (from car-driving bears, through Zombie Apocalypses, to cute babies, and . . . more bears!) as she visits France, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Colombia, back to Brooklyn, and finally landing in upstate New York. In <I>Truth is Fragmentary</I> Gabrielle Bell proves she can be . . . funny!</p><p><B>Gabrielle Bell</B> was born in England and raised in California. Her work has been selected for the 2007, 2009, and 2010 <I>Best American Comics</I> and the <I>Yale Anthology of Graphic Fiction</I>, and she has contributed to <I>McSweeneys</I>, <I>Bookforum</I>, the <I>Believer</I>, and <I>Vice</I>. The title story of Bell's book, "Cecil and Jordan in New York," has been adapted for the film anthology <I>Tokyo!</I> by Michel Gondry. Her latest book, <I>The Voyeurs</I>, was selected as one of the top five graphic novels of 2012 by <I>Publishers Weekly</I>. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.</p><BR></div>