Let Me Be Frank [Paperback]

Let Me Be Frankbrings Sarah Laing’s popular autobiographical comic series together for the first time. Sarah Laing began blogging her comics in 2009 as a way to shed light on her fiction writing and to record life before it evaporated. The comics soon had a large audience, eager for the next installment about Sarah’s parenting fails and successes, writing, her obsession with Katherine Mansfield, her family’s history, pet mice, sex, clothes, and more.

Sarah Laingis an award-winning cartoonist, short story writer, novelist, and graphic designer. She has also illustrated children’s books, made zines, and co-editedThree Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women’s Comics. Her most recent graphic memoir, Mansfield and Me, was longlisted in the 2017 Ockham book awards, and was published in New Zealand and the UK, where it was favourably reviewed by theGuardianandThe Sunday Times Literary Supplement. Sarah has been the recipient of both the Michael King and the Frank Sargeson literary fellowships in Auckland. She now lives in Wellington.