Diary of a Teenage Girl, the diary-turned-graphic novel-turned-play-turned-film by cartoonist Phoebe Gloeckner that earned rave reviews at Sundance, is set to get a wider theatrical release later this ...

Like the end of the harvest, we come to the last of our month-long survey of recent comix by women cartoonists. Leela Corman’s “Subway Series,” Debbie Drechsler’s “The Summer of Love,” Lynda Barry’s ...

Earlier this year, Diary of a Teenage Girl earned rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival, leading to its wide theatrical release this month. However, Michigan moviegoers in particular are in for a ...

Even in the vulgar, in-your-face world of underground cartooning, Phoebe Gloeckner's work has raised hackles. Her first book, "A Child's Life," was both trumpeted as a sensitive portrayal of sexual ...

Graphic artist and professor Phoebe Gloeckner had an unconventional upbringing. When she was 15, she lost her virginity to an older man — who also happened to be her mother's boyfriend. Gloeckner ...

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend a very different kind of comicon. Organized by University of Chicago associate professor Hillary Chute (Graphic Women, 2006), "Comics: Philosophy & ...

The new film “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” is based on a novel of the same name. The story is set in San Francisco in 1976 and focuses on 15-year-old Minnie Goetz, whose life is turned upside down ...

At only 15, Little Minnie — the main character of Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl — is growing up way too fast. She’s failing school, hanging out with the wrong crowd, and ...

With a chill, I read how University of Michigan students attempted to punish Phoebe Gloeckner for assigning R. Crumb, a canonical artist in American counterculture, in her course on comics (“My ...

When she was 15, Phoebe Gloeckner lost her virginity to her mother's boyfriend. Gloeckner wrote about the experience in 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl,' which Marielle Heller adapted into a film. We ...