SPX 2015 Panel - SPX Spotlight on Phoebe Gloeckner
Channel: SmallPressExpo
Date: 24/02/2016

Phoebe Gloeckner has produced one of the most powerful and innovative bodies of works in the comics field.  Her classic book “A Child’s Life and Other Stories” anthologizes short pieces which, together, powerfully express a textured portrait of adolescent desire and despair.  Her mixed format book “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” blends prose, illustration, and comics.  The book has been adapted as a critically acclaimed film, and was also republished in a new edition with additional supplementary material.  For the past several years she has been researching a book about people living in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.  Ms. Gloeckner discuses her work in a spotlight conversation with Slate Magazine culture editor Dan Kois.