Ariel Schrag

Ariel Schrag
Ariel Schrag at the WeHo Book Fair 2010
Born	(1979-12-29) December 29, 1979 (age 44) Berkeley, California
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
Notable works	Definition, Awkward, Potential, Likewise
http://www.arielschrag.com/

Ariel Schrag (born December 29, 1979) is an American cartoonist and television writer who achieved critical recognition at an early age for her autobiographical comics. Her novel Adam provoked controversy with its theme of a heterosexual teenage boy becoming drawn into the LGBTQ community of New York. Schrag accepts the label of ‘dyke comic book artist’.

Career

While attending

Schrag graduated from high school in 1998. She graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in English in 2003, and has continued to work as a cartoonist and writer.^[1] Schrag was a writer for the third and fourth seasons of the Showtime series The L Word,^[2][4] and for the second season of the HBO series How To Make It in America.^[5]

The documentary Confession: A Film About Ariel Schrag was released in 2004. It explores the then-23-year-old Schrag's world in which she "negotiates fame, obsesses about disease, and discusses the way she sees as a dyke comic book artist."^[6]

Schrag is a part-time faculty member at The New School in Manhattan, where she teaches in the writing program.^[7] Schrag participates in the artistic community Yaddo, and the queer-centric creative retreat Radar Lab.^[7][8][9] In 2014, Schrag published her novel Adam, which in 2019 was adapted into a film of the same name.

Works

High school comics

Slave Labor Graphics subsequently reprinted Awkward as a graphic novel.^[10] Her follow-up works Definition, Potential, and Likewise were republished by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in 2008 and 2009.^[2]

Killer Films is producing a movie adaptation of Potential; Schrag has written the screenplay.^[1]

Adam

Adam is

• Definition, (1997, Slave Labor Graphics,
  ISBN 0-943151-14-7
  )
• Awkward, (1999, Slave Labor Graphics, magazine format)
• Potential, (2000, Slave Labor Graphics,
  ISBN 978-0-943151-04-5
  )
• Likewise (2000, Slave Labor Graphics, magazine format)
• Stuck in the Middle: Seventeen Comics From an Unpleasant Age (editor), (2007 Viking Press, May,
  ISBN 978-0-670-06221-8
  )
• Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag (2008, Touchstone,
  ISBN 978-1-4165-5231-4
  )
• Potential: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag (2008, Touchstone,
  ISBN 978-1-4165-5235-2
  )
• Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag (2009, Touchstone,
  ISBN 978-1-4165-5237-6
  )
• Adam: A Novel (2014, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
  ISBN 978-0-5441-4293-0
  )
• Part of It: Comics and Confessions (2018, Mariner Books)[15]^{[16][17][18][19]}

Anthologies

• Juicy Mother, edited by
  ISBN 1-932360-70-0
  )
• Juicy Mother 2: How They Met, edited by Jennifer Camper, (2007, Manic D Press,
  ISBN 978-1-933149-20-2
  )
• "Dyke March", in
  ISBN 0-06-115498-9
  )
• ISBN 9781606995068
  )