Gabrielle Bell

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Gabrielle Bell
Ignatz Award (2004, 2007)
http://gabriellebell.com

Gabrielle Bell (born March 24, 1976, in

semi-autobiographical
stories.

Early life

When Bell was two, her American mother divorced her British father

self-publishing her comics.[1]
She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Career

Books of...

From about 1998 to 2002, Bell annually

Alternative Comics
in 2003.

Lucky

In 2003, Bell began the self-published semi-autobiographical Lucky series, of which the third won a 2003

Ignatz Award
for Most Outstanding Minicomic. Lucky details Bell's day-to-day existence in a frank and good-humored manner, as she navigates a world of dilapidated rental apartments, low-paying jobs, yoga classes, roommate misadventures, and artistic frustration. These snippets of daily life in the
Brooklyn, New York
, are comforting in their familiarity; by settling into the rhythm of the artist's daily life, the reader experiences the heft of small victories and simple pleasures. Lucky tells of the anguish of nude modeling; sex-obsessed, adolescent art students; and Bell's own foibles.

Lucky was collected by Drawn & Quarterly in fall 2006, and launched as a new series (vol. 2), also by Drawn & Quarterly, in 2007.

Cecil and Jordan in New York

Cecil and Jordan in New York (Drawn & Quarterly) is a collection of Bell's short comics work that has been published in various anthologies, including Kramers Ergot (Buenaventura Press), Mome (Fantagraphics), and Drawn & Quarterly Showcase Book Four.

The Voyeurs

The Voyeurs (Uncivilized Books, 2012) is a real-time memoir of a turbulent five years in the life of renowned cartoonist, diarist and filmmaker Gabrielle Bell. It collects episodes from her award-winning series, Lucky, in which she travels to Tokyo, Paris, and the South of France and all over the United States, but remains anchored by her beloved Brooklyn, where sidekick Tony provides ongoing insight, offbeat humor and enduring friendship.

Michel Gondry

Bell collaborated with director

Tôkyô!.[2]

Bell and Gondry also collaborated on Kuruma Tohrimasu, a collection of drawings and photographs made during the production of Interior Design. Conceived of as a thank-you gift for the film's cast and crew, Kuruma Tohrimasu is published as part of Drawn & Quarterly’s Petits Livres series.

Anthologies

Bell was a regular contributor to

Soft Skull Press), Linus, and Shout! magazine.[3] Her work has been included three times in the annual Best American Comics anthology series.[4]

Everything is Flammable

Bell's first full-length graphic memoir, Everything is Flammable, was released in April 2017 with publisher Uncivilized Books.[5] Everything is Flammable was chosen as one of the best graphic novels of 2017 by Entertainment Weekly, a finalist for the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize as Best Graphic Novel/Comic, and nominated for a Broken Frontier Award for Best Graphic Non-Fiction.[6][7][8] The book also received praises from acclaimed writers such as Joyce Carol Oates[9] and Tao Lin.[10]

Bell has been a writer/artist in residence at several institutions, including Bryn Mawr and Baruch College.[11]

Bibliography (selected)

  • When I'm Old and Other Stories (Alternative Comics, 2003)
    ISBN 978-1-891867-43-9
  • Lucky (Drawn & Quarterly, 2006)
    ISBN 978-1-897299-01-2
  • Lucky vol. 2. (Drawn & Quarterly, 2007, ongoing)
  • Cecil and Jordan in New York: Stories by Gabrielle Bell (Drawn & Quarterly, 2008)
    ISBN 978-1-897299-57-9
  • Kuruma Tohrimasu (Drawn & Quarterly, 2008)
    ISBN 978-1-897299-59-3
  • The Voyeurs (Uncivilized Books, 2012)
    ISBN 978-0-984681-40-2
  • Truth is Fragmentary: Travelogues & Diaries (Uncivilized Books, 2014)
    ISBN 978-0-988901-45-2
  • Everything is Flammable (Uncivilized Books, April 2017)
    ISBN 978-1941250181

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Bell bio at Drawn & Quarterly website. Retrieved Sept. 4, 2008.
  2. ^ "Michel Gondry Pinch Hits for Tokyo!". Interview Magazine. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  3. ^ "Gabrielle Bell | The New Yorker". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  4. ^ Neil Gaiman, ed., The Best American Comics 2010 (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 322
  5. ISBN 9781941250181
    .
  6. ^ "The 8 best graphic novels of 2017". EW.com. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  7. ^ Schaub, Michael (21 February 2018). "L.A. Times Book Prize finalists include Joyce Carol Oates and Ta-Nehisi Coates; John Rechy receives lifetime achievement award". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  8. ^ "Introducing the Broken Frontier Awards 2017 - Celebrating Another Year of Indie, Alt and Small Press Coverage at BF! – Broken Frontier". www.brokenfrontier.com. 11 December 2017. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  9. ^ "Joyce Carol Oates on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  10. ^ "Tao Lin on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  11. ^ "THE SIDNEY HARMAN WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM". www.baruch.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-25.

External links

Interviews

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