Spaniel Rage

Vanessa Davis’s autobiography, more observational than confessional, delighted readers ten years ago when she first began telling stories about her life in New York as a young single Jewish woman. Spaniel Rage is filled with frank and immediate pencil-drawn accounts of dating woes, misunderstandings between her and her mother, and conversations with friends.

Her keen observation of careless words spoken casually is refreshingly honest, yet never condemning. Unabashedly, Davis offers up gently self-deprecating anecdotes about her anxieties and wry truths about the contradictions of life in the big city. These comics are sexy, funny, lonely, beautiful, spare, and very smart—the finest work from a natural storyteller.

DETAILS

120 Pages

6.75" x 9"

Paperback

ABOUT

Vanessa Davis is the award-winning cartoonist of the graphic novel and minicomic Spaniel Rage, which was praised by Bust and Vice magazines. Her Drawn & Quarterly book, Make Me A Woman, was serialized online for Tablet Magazine. Using beautiful watercolors, refreshing honesty, and humor, her comics have made an immediate impression and have appeared in such anthologies as Kramers Ergot, Best American Comics, Stuck in the Middle, Papercutter, and An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories.