A Girl's Life

Johanna Drucker (artist, b. 1952); Susan Bee (artist, b. 1952)

A Girl's Life, 2002

This book is a 'graphic melodrama' that depicts the ups and downs, traumas, and growing pains that involve being a teenage girl. Johanna Drucker and Susan Bee, two visual artists and authors collaborated to create a vivid, colorful commentary on the angst that sometimes comes with societal expectations placed on young women. The form of the book is almost nonexistent - text and images are distributed wildly across the page. Photographs are mixed with collages, while the text veers into avant-garde prose. The books deals head-on with all of the ugly, heartbreaking things that can occur during that time in a girl's life and urges us to stay strong and positive.