Even Scott McCloud’s classic comic about comics-his theoretical work “Understanding Comics”-uses a cooking scene to illustrate the powers unique to the genre:Īs the smells and sounds of cooking waft between the frames, it doesn’t take more than a few visuals to immerse you into Mom’s kitchen-just a couple of squiggly lines from the soup pot evoke not only hunger, but also warmth, and perhaps a sense of comfort.Īdvertisers are certainly aware of the power of images to trigger our senses of taste and smell: a single photo of a burger, a cookie, can send someone on a midnight run to the store, and a slow-motion ad of someone dipping a fork into a piece of chocolate cake, and slowly, slowly moving it to her mouth. Her first fiction, Stepping Stones, is a middle-grade book about a girl who moves from the city to a farm in the country, and has to contend with farm chores, wild animals, and a whole new family dynamic.Originally published on October 14, 2013įood and cooking always figure prominently within comics. It collects comics celebrating the joys and misery of new parenthood, from her much-loved instagram page. Her followup book is Go To Sleep/I Miss You. Her next book, Kid Gloves, Nine Months of Careful Chaos is about her pregnancy and childbirth experiences, and the history, science and superstition of reproductive health. Her following book, Something New Tales from a Makeshift Bride is the story of her romantic adventures and traversing the confusing path towards getting married. This book was featured in an interview with Lucy on NPR's Fresh Air.
This book explores the flip side to being a young adult family, responsibility and aging. The follow-up, Displacement, follows Lucy on a elderly tour aboard a cruise ship with her aging grandparents. A travelogue, the book explores the excitement and freedom that comes from being young and unattached.
The book focuses on her childhood growing up with a chef for a mother, and the world of food and cooking that surrounded her youth. Her next book, An Age of License, is a story of one of those touring trips. It has been translated into six languages. Her second book, Relish, was widely acclaimed, and featured as a New York Times best-seller, Goodreads top book of the year, and an American Library Association award winner in the YA category. She published her first book, French Milk (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster) in 2008.
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