French Milk

  French

  milk

  Lucy knisley

  Touchstone

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  Copyright © 2007 by Lucy Knisley

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  First Touchstone trade paperback edition October 2008

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

  ISBN-13:978-1-4165-7534-4

  ISBN-10:1-4165-7534-0

  eISBN-13: 978-1-4165-8824-5

  A previous version of this work was originally published by Epigraph Publishing in 2007.

  DURING JANUARY OF 2007, MY MOTHER AND I

  LIVED IN A SMALL RENTAL APARTMENT

  IN PARIS IN ORDER TO CELEBRATE

  MY MOTHER’S TURNING FIFTY

  (AND MY TURNING TWENTY-TWO)

  THE FOLLOWING IS THE DRAWN JOURNAL

  THAT I KEPT IN THE COURSE OF THE TRIP.

  THE TITLE IS PARTLY IN REFERENCE

  TO MY LOVE FOR THE FRESH WHOLE MILK

  THAT I FOUND SO DIFFERENT FROM

  AMERICAN PROCESSED DAIRY.

  THIS ALSO DEALS WITH THE VALUABLE AND

  SIGNIFICANT INFLUENCE THAT WE

  TAKE IN FROM OUR MOTHERS, AS WELL AS

  MY OWN STRUGGLE TOWARD ADULTHOOD

  AT AN AGE WHEN WE SO DESPERATELY

  CLING TO OUR ADOLESCENCE.

  WITH THANKS TO MY MOTHER,

  FOR HOLDING THE MAP

  Acknowledgments

  My thanks to my publishers and editors at Touchstone, particularly the marvelous Amanda Patten. I’m very grateful to Holly Bemiss for her much needed help and expertise. Thank you to my dad, for being such a supportive presence in the development of this book, and to 192 Books, where they were so kind to me and to French Milk. Much gratitude to Louisa Ermelino at Publishers Weekly, for interviewing this unknown. Steve Bissette at The Center for Cartoon Studies, for his advice and encouragement, thank you, To my little town of Rhinebeck, and all the people there who spread my book around, I’m so grateful. I owe a great deal to Hope Larson, for her friendship and guidance, and to Bryan Lee O’Malley for letting me hang around their convention tables and home. My comic book God and Goddess, Scott McCloud and Lynda Barry, thank you eternally for the inspiration and the permission to keep my pen moving. with thanks to SAIC, and my wonderful teachers. Thank you to everyone who bought the first edition of this book, straight from my hands. Thank you and love to Zan, Nelly, Sarah, MC, David, Grant, Bernie, Jeremy, Beck, Sara, Jess, Matthew, Joel, Dean, Becca, Renee, Leathem, Mark, Alec, Aaron, Laura and the other wonderfully talented artists I am lucky enough to call my friends. Thank you to john, for missing me while I was away.

  Mostly, I would like to thank my mom, Georgia, who’s contributions to the making of this book are too numerous to list, and mean so much to me. Without her help and perpetual calm and love, both my life and my art would be even messier, and not nearly any good.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Lucy Knisley is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently attends the Center for Cartoon Studies. She lives and works in chicago, and is 23 years old.

  During the month she spent in Paris, she is estimated to have eaten approximately 60 croissants, over 400 cornichons, and a metric ton of chocolate mousse.

 

 

  Lucy Knisley, French Milk

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