Gabrielle Bell

Gabrielle Bell is everyone in this piece. I know this post is late, I should have posted last night, but my computer is 5 years old and is finally starting to die, so I didn't post. Lame excuse, I know. But the reactions people gave this piece in class today proves that she's the everyman (or woman, duh). She takes the boring moments and makes them fascinating, approachable, totally not-boring and hilarious to witness. Illustrated memoirs have the difficult task of holding up a two way mirror (if that exists, this is just something thats in my head.) Not only are they illustrating their lives, they have to make it so that they're illustrating their entire demographics' lives, also. How do you make something so personal into something commonplace and universal? Realizing that hey, we're all the same after all and experience many of the same things, just in different variations, over different timeperiods, etc? Sure, yeah, you could say that, that'd be the easy thing to say. Or just make it super funny and silly, into something that people actually want to experience, and they'll find ways of applying it to their lives. Im not saying that's happening in this piece. Im just trying to look at different angles. Or maybe Im trying to be edgy and different and counterintuitive for the sake of counter-intuitiveness. Which is pretty lame, I know.