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Escape from "special"

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Fantagraphics, 2006 - 176 pages
A moving debut graphic novel about the pain of childhood.Fantagraphics Books is proud to follow up our launch of rising star R. Kikuo Johnson (author of the acclaimed Night Fisher) by showcasing Miss Lasko-Gross in her graphic- novel debut. Escape from "Special" is the coming-of-age story of Melissa, who we first meet as a small child and depart from at the end of the book just before she enters high school. Willful, funny, and perceptive, Melissa unsentimentally questions religion, identity formation, and treacherous female "friendships" as she tours with her parent's band, battles with her therapist, and bounces from school to school. Subjected to the whims of her bemused parents and, as the years pass, rejected by her peers, the opinionated Melissa copes by watching horror movies, psychosomatically vomiting to get out of temple, and making comics.Escape from "Special" recalls a not-too- distant time when girls flaunted their knock-off Esprit and shared best-friends necklaces broken in half. The semi-autobiographical story unfolds in a series of brief anecdotes, expressionistically dredged as if from memory, without self-regarding exposition and uncorrupted by a nostalgic haze. Drawn in black and white and washed in moody blues and full spectrum grays, Lasko-Gross's art, with its detailed backgrounds and expressive, clean-line characters, exquisitely conveys the story's blend of humor (sometimes of the gross-out variety) and keenly observed insights. Miss Lasko-Gross, who has the sensibility of a love child of Linda Barry and David B. midwifed by Judy Blume, has created a graphic novel that should appeal not only to the growing readers of graphic novels, but to teens grappling with similar unresolved questions.

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I read the sequel to this first about her life in high school. This was about her life as a child growing up and feeling totally at odds with the people around you and not being able to relate to anyone and always feeling like you were doing the wrong thing. I really liked it. Consulter l'avis complet

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THIS WAS SO GOOD. This kid is so delightfully weird. Consulter l'avis complet

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Miss Lasko-Gross: Escape from "Special"
In her graphic novel, Escape from "Special" cartoonist Miss Lasko-Gross ... Lasko-Gross composes Escape from "Special" as a series of scenes - kind of like ...
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MISS LASKO-GROSS ON ESCAPE FROM "SPECIAL" - NEWSARAMA
NRAMA: So is Escape From “Special” straight up autobiography or do you .... Is Escape From “Special” something that you think would work for younger girls? ...
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From the stack: Escape from “Special” « Precocious Curmudgeon
Melissa, the protagonist of Escape from “Special” (Fantagraphics), is an odd sort of fusion of Dawn Wiener from Welcome to the Dollhouse and Daria ...
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The Comics Reporter
The great achievement of Miss Lasko-Gross' massive, jumbled reminiscence of growing up Escape From "Special" is the sensual effect her cartooning has in ...
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Bookslut | Execution Row: Or, Thank You for Your Semi ...
Escape From "Special" by Miss Lasko-Gross (Fantagraphics Books), ... To be honest, as much as I enjoyed parts of Escape From "Special" while I was reading ...
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Toronto Public Library Catalogue
Escape from "special" Lasko-Gross, Miss. Publishers Weekly Review ... Title: Escape from "special" / written & drawn by Miss Lasko-Gross. ...
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stltoday - graphic novels
Miss Lasko-Gross' "Escape From 'Special'" (176 pages, $16.95) falls in the last category. The book covers ground already expertly explored by other female ...
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Book Listings
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Occasional Superheroine: Occasional Interviews: Kevin Colden ...
Miss shows me pages of original art for her sequel to "Escape From Special." They are delicate, meticulously drawn pieces that are slightly smaller than the ...
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K. Thor Jensen: News
Miss Lasko-Gross will be reading from her new graphic novel, Escape from "Special", is a coming-of-age story of Melissa, who we first meet as a small child ...
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À propos de l'auteur (2006)

Miss Lasko-Gross was born in Boston in 1977. She has a BFA in Communciation design from Pratt Institute. Her comics work has appeared in Aim Comics, Lefty, Nine Hours to Durham, House of Twelve, and True Porn. She has exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the CBGB Gallery. When she's not playing with the comics medium, she's playing with dogs. She lives in Manhattan.

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TitreEscape from "special"
AuteurMiss Lasko-Gross
Éditionillustrée
ÉditeurFantagraphics, 2006
Original provenant del'Université du Michigan
Numérisé15 nov. 2007
Longueur176 pages
  
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