Ariel Schrag

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Ariel Schrag (born 1979) is an American cartoonist who has achieved critical recognition at an unusually early age for her autobiographical comics.

While attending high school in Berkeley, California, Schrag self-published her first comic series, Awkward, depicting events from her freshman year. Awkward was subsequently reprinted as a graphic novel by Slave Labor Graphics, followed by three more books based on her next three years of school: Definition (ISBN 0-943151-14-7), Potential (ISBN 0-943151-04-X), and Likewise (ongoing, not yet collected). Both humorous and emotionally raw, these books told stories of family life, going to concerts, experimentation with drugs, high school crushes, and coming out as a lesbian.

She graduated Berkeley High School in 1998. Schrag went on to study at Columbia University in New York City, and has continued to work as a cartoonist. She is currently planning for a movie.

The documentary "Confession: A Film About Ariel Schrag" was released in 2004. It explores then 23 year-old Ariel Schrag's world in which she negotiated fame, obsessed about disease, and discussed the way she sees as a dyke comic book artist.[1]

Ariel Schrag is a writer for the Showtime lesbian-focused series The L Word.