Dar: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary, Volume Two

Dar! #2

by Erika Moen

As seen online at DarComic.com, DAR! chronicles the six year long autobiographical story of Erika Moen, a lost 20-year-old lesbian artist-wannabe in college who falls in love with a boy in England and the evolution that her sexual identity undergoes before winding up marrying him as a queer 26-year-old full-time cartoonist. Along the way there are many vignettes about sex, farts, the queer community, the Brits, vibrators and figuring out sexual identity.

The second and final DAR! volume, collecting strips from 2009 of the award-winning weekly webcomic, plus printing the very first years of DAR! (2003-2005) for the first time as well as 12 brand new strips drawn exclusively for the book and extra bonus material! Introduction by Dylan Meconis.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Queer, LGBT, Graphic Novels Comics, Memoir, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Erika Moen is a freelance cartoonist born June 25, 1983 and graduated with an Illustrated Storytelling self-designed degree from Pitzer College in 2006. She lives in Portland, Oregon where she has been a member of Periscope Studio since 2008. Having created comics for well over a decade, her work has been published by Dark Horse, Image, Villard and Scholastic, among many others. In addition to creating comics, she also regularly teaches classes and guest lectures on the subject in high schools and colleges around the country. She has been happily married to Matthew Nolan since October 2008.

Reviews

[Kathryn Hemmann]

Super duper cute and funny, with a lot of cool bonus reprints of the artist's zines from the early-to-mid 2000s. It's so cool to see how her style has evolved - and how her life has evolved as well!

[Christian Lipski]

How much information is TMI? Erika Moen does not care to consider this question, and that's what makes DAR! great.
Nothing is held back in this view into a life, complete with love, loss and farts.

[Shoshanna]

More funny, clever, little comics. Bonus material, really old comics. Like these OK.

[Becky]

I love Erika Moen's style and humor. The collected Dar! is funny and touching and leaves me only wanting more of her story.

[Antonomasia]

Same as for the other one really: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

(He was mentioned in the second one too.
Also it was a bit cheerier towards the end.)

[Cathy]

Very enlightening and inspiring.

[Joey Gremillion]

FEH!!!

[Angela Boyle]

Though not as funny as the first book, still thoroughly enjoyable.