The Urban Fairytales

About Sarah

 

Sarah C. Bell is a graphic novelist, illustrator and painter living in San Francisco. Numerous presses, such as Nerve House, Fairytale Review Magazine and Fantagraphics Books, have published her work.  

The first full-length volume of The Urban Fairytales, “La Niña, Paperdoll” was published in 1999 by Baksun books.  

Currently, her short piece, Nubo (a graphic essay) can be seen in The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore and Politics,” University of California Press.  

Her short piece, Bug Soup, is awaiting publication in Peanut Butter, Gooseberries and Latkes: Writers Invent Creation Myths for their Favorite Foods.  

Sarah is also the Staff Cartoonist for Absurdist Monthly Review, online literary magazine.  

She is also the Illustrator, co-publisher and co-editor for Baksun Books (Boulder, Colorado).  

 

About the Work

My comix and short graphic essays are a combination of real events from my life, my friend’s lives, my dreams, fantasies and nightmares.  While many of the stories are true, others are extrapolations on things that I’ve seen, imagined, or made up completely.  I use myself as the main character in the work because I believe that the emotionality in the work comes out more fully when it is filtered through my own eyes and feelings.  My comix have been called sassy, narcissistic, silly, dark, sexy, deranged and honest.  With lots of pictures.  

 

 

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