Lucy%E2%80%99s own private journey about being confused, lost, and lonely for love at her stage of life is balanced with the humorous mishaps and heartbreaking deterioration of her grandparents, all told with a mix of comics, illustrations without text, and hand-lettered journal entries. His observations are insightful and detailed%E2%80%94even more could have been mixed into the book. She brings her grandfather%E2%80%99s World War II memoir along with her, and segments of the memoir are interspersed within the text, giving us a glimpse into her grandfather%E2%80%99s young life. Not a seasoned caretaker, Lucy struggles with cleaning up her grandfather%E2%80%99s soiled pants and guarding her grandparents%E2%80%99 cabin door so they don%E2%80%99t wander off. Her grandmother is dipping into dementia, packing numerous toothbrushes and combs, and insisting on buying even more at the ship%E2%80%99s store. She ends up dealing with more than she expected, however, as her grandparents are no longer very mobile and have high demands on her attention. Lucy accompanies her aging grandparents on a Caribbean cruise. She continues to work away on two more graphic novels, and is excited to bring more comics to share with readers.After her acclaimed travelogues French Milk and An Age of License, Knisley returns with a new travel memoir, this one focusing on duty rather than adventure. (First Second Books, April 2013.) It won an Alex Award from the American Librarian Association, was a NYT and Amazon bestseller, and a Goodreads top graphic novel of 2013.Īn Age of License and Displacement are paired travelogues about youth and family, coming out this year (Fantagraphics Books, 2014). Relish, from First Second Books, is about growing up in the food industry. (From Touchstone Publishing from Simon and Schuster), August of 2008. Check out her blog and web comic essay series on !įrench Milk, from Touchstone Publishing, is a drawn journal about living (and eating) in Paris with her mother. She lives in Chicago, where she makes comics, does freelance illustration, and teaches the occasional comics workshop. She then studied at the Center for Cartoon Studies, where she received a scholarship to pursue her MFA (completed in June, 2009).īeginning with a love for Archie comics, Tintin and Calvin and Hobbes, she has been making comics in some form or another since she could hold a pencil. Lucy is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she went to study painting, and ended up making comics. I'll bet you're wondering how to pronounce her name (the K is silent).

Lucy Knisley is an illustrator, comic artist and author.

An Age of License by Lucy Knisley