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Making Out With the Smart Boys: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From A Mess of Everything

Boring teachers. Bullshit poseurs. Anorexic best friends. Surely you remember the joys of high school as if they were yesterday! Cartoonist Miss Lasko-Gross certainly does, and in her semi-autobiographical A Mess of Everything, she writes about her own high-school years with affectionately brutal honesty. In this story, 15-year-old Melissa sneaks out of the house and learns to be a little more discerning in her make-out partners.

A story from Miss Lasko-Gross’s memoir of high school, out today from Fantagraphics.
Making Out With the Smart Boys: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From A Mess of Everything