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Phoebe Louise Adams Gloeckner

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15-3-2003

Not your mother's comic book

In her brilliant new novel "Diary of a Teenage Girl," Phoebe Gloeckner's heroine (and alter ego) falls in love with a lesbian junkie, shoots speed and has an affair with her mother's boyfriend.

By Whitney Joiner

 

March 15, 2003  |  For an artist known for creating unsettling comics filled with graphic sexual imagery, Phoebe Gloeckner's studio, a converted garage attached to her suburban Long Island home, is surprisingly subdued. Her daughters' artwork decorates the walls. Bookshelves overflow with scientific reference books, "Sanford and Son" videotapes, coloring books. Fluffy pillows cover an oversized chair and a built-in loveseat by the door. It's cluttered, homey, comfortable.

Only two illustrations of Minnie, Gloeckner's signature character, alter ego and the heroine of her brilliant new comics/text hybrid novel, "Dia

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Phoebe Gloeckner

American artist

Phoebe Louise Adams Gloeckner (born December 22, 1960) is an American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and novelist.[1][2]

Early life

Gloeckner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her mother was a librarian[1] and her father, David Gloeckner,[2] was a commercial illustrator. Her father's family was Quaker and she attended Quaker schools when she was young.[3] She has a younger sister.[3]

Gloeckner's parents divorced when she was 4 years old. In 1972, when she was 11 or 12 years old, her mother remarried and the family moved to San Francisco.[4] She attended several Bay Area schools, including The Urban School of San Francisco[5] and Lick-Wilmerding High School.[6] She was a boarding student at Castilleja (in Palo Alto) for a year, but returned to San Francisco to live with her mother, her mother's boyfriend, and her sister, when she was 14.[1]

Gloeckner began cartooning at the age of 12. Because her mother was dating Robert Arm

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Pho eb e g lo ec k n er A s s oci at e P r o f e s s o r Universit y of Michigan School of Ar t and Design 2 0 0 0 B o n i s t e e l, O f f i c e 2 070 A n n A r b o r M I 4 810 9 p h o e b e g@u m i c h . e d u EDUCATION 1988: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Master of Arts, Biomedical Communications (Medical Illustration) 1986: Charles University (Univerzita Karlova), Prague Summer program in Slavic language studies (Czech). 1983-84: Universite D’Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France French language and literature, biology. 1980-1985: San Francisco State University Undergraduate studies in Fine Arts and pre-medicine. Professional appointments / Employment 2010-present: Associate Professor University of Michigan School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor. 2004-2010: Assistant Professor University of Michigan School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor. 2003-2004: Visiting Artist SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York. Taught Drawing. 2003-2004: Adjunct Instructor Suffolk County Community College Department of Visual Art (SCCC), Selden, New York. Taught Drawing.

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