Skeleton Girl

    (Slave Labor, 1995-1996)
™ and ©1995 Cris Dornaus

Author/illustrator Cris Dornaus likes skeletons. Thus it was only natural that she put together a semi-autobiographical black-and-white comic series where the main character is a boney figure called “Skeleton Girl.”

Skeleton Girl is not a tights-wearing super-heroine, a supernaturally summoned corpse, or even an allegory for bolemic southern California teenaged girls. Skeleton Girl is a funny, enlightening character who Dornaus uses to tell stories about real life observations, from the troubles one can have finding a toilet to how she got hooked on the X-Files, with a little fantasy thrown in every now and then, as with “Skeleton Girl in Outer Space”

The language makes this more for mature audiences, but it isn’t anything most high schoolers of the nineties haven’t heard in the hallways. A fun and enlightening book, the sad news is that it only lasted three issues.
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  • 1
    #1
    Dec 1995
    Cover: $2.95
    W: Cris Dornaus, Rich Luber Withrow  ·  A: Cris Dornaus
    1st Appearance of J.J.; 1st appearance of Skeleton Girl; 1st appearance of Stacy the Maniacal; Angst-Filled Hate Girl; Skeleton Boy; Adult
    2 copies from $1.27
  • 2
    #2
    Apr 1996
    Cover: $2.95
    W: Cris Dornaus  ·  A: Cris Dornaus
    2nd Appearance of J.J.; 2nd Appearance of Skeleton Girl; Skeleton Boy; Adult
    2 copies from $1.70
  • 3
    #3
    Sep 1996
    Cover: $2.95
    W: Cris Dornaus  ·  A: Cris Dornaus
    Adult
    1 copy for $2.12