The campaign against freedom doesn’t just limit itself to the literary classics of Shakespeare and Mark Twain. Works of fiction and non-fiction, both traditional and contemporary, are recurrent fodder for the flames. But did you know that even comic books are kindling for the fires of ignorance?

Edited by comics icon Ariel Schrag, a 2007 anthology of illustrated tales about the agonies and triumphs of seventh and eight grade features some of America’s leading graphic novelists including Daniel Clowes, Joe Matt, Lauren Weinstein, and Ariel herself. With humor that is refreshing and bluntly honest, seventeen artists share their stories of first loves, bullies, zits, and all the things that make middle school the most chaotic years of our lives.

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