Let Me Be Frank: Comics 2010-2019
By (Author) Sarah Laing
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Victoria University Press
10th October 2019
New Zealand
General
Fiction
741.56993
Paperback
348
Let Me Be Frank brings Sarah Laing's popular autobiographical comic series together for the first time. Sarah Laing began blogging her comics in 2009 as a way to shed light on her fiction writing and to record life before it evaporated. The comics soon had a large audience, eager for the next installment about Sarah's parenting fails and successes, writing, her obsession with Katherine Mansfield, her family's history, pet mice, sex, clothes and more. Let Me Be Frank is a witty, whip-smart comic collection that is ever disarmingly frank.
Sarah Laing is an award-winning cartoonist, short story writer, novelist and graphic designer. Let Me Be Frank is her fifth book, and she has also illustrated children's books, made zines and co-edited Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics. Her most recent graphic memoir, Mansfield and Me, was longlisted in the 2017 Ockham book awards, and was published in New Zealand and the UK, where it was favourably reviewed by the Guardian and The Sunday Times Literary Supplement. Sarah has been the recipient of both the Michael King and the Frank Sargeson literary fellowships in Auckland. She now lives in Wellington.