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I Am Not Okay With This

  • 176 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 2017
  • 7 editions

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1 About this book

Sydney seems like a normal, rudderless fifteen-year-old freshman. She hangs out underneath the bleachers, blasts music in her friend's car, and gets into arguments with her annoying little brother.

But she also has a few secrets she’s only shared in her diary: how she's in love with her best friend, the bizarre death of her war veteran father, and excruciatingly painful telekinetic powers that keep popping up at the most inopportune times.

Charles Forsman once again expertly channels teenage ethos in a style that evokes classic comics strips while telling a powerful story about the intense, and sometimes violent, tug of war between trauma and control. I Am Not Okay With This tackles familial strain, sexual confusion, and PTSD in Forsman's signature straight-faced-but-humorous style and firmly stakes his place among the world's best cartoonists.

  • Comics & graphic novels, science fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Mental health
  • Psychic trauma
  • Psychokinesis
  • Teenage girls
  • Comic books, strips
  • United States

2 About Charles Forsman

Born 1982

Charles Forsman (born 1982) is an American cartoonist. Combining a simple drawing style with dark and realistic themes, Forsman continues the tradition of alternative comics. Forsman's father died when Charles was 11 years old. Forsman obtained a degree from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2008.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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