Tara Booth

Riotous bodies abound in these deeply honest comics that will get you through it (or at least help) “When you order CBD gummies for your anxiety but forget to consider your eating disorder.” Known for her buzzing colors, delightful patterns, sharp humor, and unflinching vulnerability, Tara Booth does not miss any mark in this exquisitely woven collection of pure and nasty magic. Part advice column and exhibit, exploration of psychic pollution and tranquility, Processing is—quite simply—intrepid: in its honesty; its unapologetic grossness; its unrivaled and frank portrayal of life with a body that bleeds. In the grand tradition of underground women cartoonists like Julie Doucet and Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Booth draws a horned up woman laying rose petals on the bed, to distract from the bedbugs before her hookup arrives. She bears witness to the reality of wearing a t-shirt with no bra—when you stretch, your boobs, sometimes, pop right out. This is all just life but we don’t often see it on the page. Undaunted, Booth draws it. When advice from spiritual gurus like Tara Brach and Ram Dass just aren’t cutting it, take solace in the genuine arms of Tara Booth: a fearless cartoonist who is unafraid to put her existential angst, blemishes, and stains right on the page, and who—with relentless relatability—makes us all feel a bit more at home in our too-human vessels. With color that vibrates and fluids that impose, Processing lays Booth bare—literally and figuratively.

100 Comics That Got Me Through It

Processing

Jon-Michael Frank

Things to Do Instead of Killing Yourself

First 30 days of sobriety - visiting the coasts, reaching out to an ex, nature, friends and family.

30 Days - March - April

First 30 days of sobriety - visiting the coasts, reaching out to an ex, nature, friends and family. The first book of a six book/bi-monthly series chronicling the artist's daily life living sober - humor, honesty, astonishingly uncensored scenarios drawn in vivid color. Each bi-monthly edition will be 72 pages, flip issue manner -- the reader flips the book in the middle, dividing each month -- pull-out poster in the middle.

30 Days - January - February

A bold, graphic diary of the first few months living sober, illustrated in vibrant marker drawings. Honesty and pain, swathed in humor.

Sometimes, All the Time

How To Be Alive is a collection of Tara Booth's most recent gouache paintings. Straying from the narrative form of her first two publications, How To Be Alive is a series of densely patterned, colorful, one and two page vignettes that still build a story of Tara's life.

Tara Booth

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