Ink in Water
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Ink in Water by Lacy J Davis
At once punk rock and poignant, Ink in Water is the visceral and groundbreaking graphic memoir of a young woman's devastating struggle with negative body image and eating disorders, and how she rose above her own destructive behaviors and feelings of inadequacy to live a life of strength and empowerment. As a young artist living in Portland, Lacy Davis' eating disorder began with the germ of an idea: a seed of a thought that told her she just wasn't good enough. And like ink in water, that idea spread until it reached every corner of her being. This is the true story of Lacy's journey into the self-destructive world of multiple eating disorders. It starts with a young and positive Lacy, trying to grapple with our culture's body-image obsession and stay true to her riot grrrl roots. And while she initially succeeds in overcoming a nagging rumination about her body, a break up with a recovering addict starts her on a collision course with anorexia, health food obsession, and compulsive exercise addiction. At the request of her last real friend, she starts going to a twelve-step Overeaters Anonymous course, only to find that it conflicts with her punk feminist ideology. Blending bold humor, a healthy dose of self-deprecation, vulnerability, literary storytelling, and dynamic and provocative artwork by illustrator Jim Kettner, Ink in Water is an unflinching, brutally honest look into the author's mind: how she learned to take control of her damaging thoughts, redirect her perfectionism from self-destructive behaviors into writing and art, and how she committed herself to a life of health, strength, and nourishment.
Jim Kettner is a coffee shop cartoonist, writer, illustrator, and podcaster (Adult Crash, Galaktacus) currently caffeinating in Portland OR. His comics and stories have been featured in SF Weekly, Razorcake, Travel Portland, Driftwood Magazine,and As You Were Punk Comix Anthology. He's taken comics to the classroom, teaching courses in visual storytelling at California College of the Arts, and Dominican University of California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781626258310 |
| ISBN 10 | 1626258317 |
| Title | Ink in Water |
| Author | Lacy J Davis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Harbinger Publications |
| Year published | 2017-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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