Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir

By Prince, Liz

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ISBN
9781936976553 9781936976560
Publisher
Zest


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Library Journal

Reviewed on September 15, 2014  |  Graphic Novels

Boys in skirts, girls in shirts and ties: we associate such gender nonconformity with same-sex attraction. But young Liz didn't even conform to that assumption. Refusing anything traditionally feminine, dressing like a boy, liking sports and Battle Beasts toys and lizards, she hit puberty by falling in love with guys like her girlier classmates did. Done in simple, clean-line sketchbook-style black-and-white drawings, th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Magazine

Reviewed on September 1, 2014

"When you don't look or act like what everyone has been told is the norm, you get proverbially barfed on a lot." In an often funny, sometimes painful, and sharply observed graphic memoir, comics artist and self-described tomboy Prince views her formative years through the lens of gender -- or rather, society's rigid rules for gender conformity. Chronicling the evolution of her thoughts about her own identity -- "Maybe I am a boy..." -- Pr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Guide

Reviewed on January 1, 2014

In an often funny, sometimes painful, and sharply observed graphic-novel memoir, self-described tomboy Prince views her formative years through the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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