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Daddy's Girl: Comics

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Debbie Dreschler's work has a dream like quality to it - lots of curved lines and minimal color schemes. Her drawings are unique and to put it simply, beautiful.

Daddy's Girl is a collection of comic stories following a young girl as she tries to cope with her father's molestations and her relationships with her peers.

The awkwardness of childhood is so perfectly re-created in this work. I cannot recommend it more highly.

Also, check out Debbie's comic "Nowhere". It's done in a beautiful two color style, but the subject matter is similiar.

I've never been much for the underground comics style (purposefully ugly, almost Picasso-esque character designs with very hard lines, etc), but I didn't mind this one so much, since the underground style fit better with the story (two stories actually, the longer one about a girl who is molested by her father, the other about a girl who is raped by a pot-head) than, say, the cute character designs of Rumiko Takahashi's in her "Laughing Target" comic.

As far as the story goes, it seems a little too familiar at times, but then there's always something in common in stories about abuse. The ending of the longer story is what sets this apart from the others, the author having come up with a way for the character to rise above the abuse and to become her own person again in an original way.