Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures - Tapa dura

"I don't remember being born. I was a very ugly child. My appearance has not improved so I guess it was a lucky break when he was attracted by my youthfulness." So begins the story of Minnie Glover in The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Saddled with a narcissistic mother, a string of sleazy stepfathers, and her own precocious sexuality, fifteen-year-old Minnie plunges into an unguided but fearless adolescence. More than a simple diary, this acclaimed cartoonist's semi-autobiographical story of her coming of age in San Francisco in the 1970s is a deft blend of visual and verbal narrative, a frank and unflinching chronicle of survival in an incomprehensible world.

Phoebe Gloeckner was born in Philadelphia and raised in San Francisco. Her comics first appeared in underground publications when she was in her teens. A critically acclaimed collection of her comics, paintings, and etchings, A Child's Life and Other Stories, was published in 1998. In addition to paintings and comics, she has made award-winning short films.