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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Skeleton Girl #1

December, 1995
Cover Price: $2.95
2 copies available from $1.28 		Cris Dornaus, Rich Luber WithrowCris Dornaus
Skeleton Girl #2

April, 1996
Cover Price: $2.95
2 copies available from $1.70 		Cris DornausCris Dornaus
Skeleton Girl #3

September, 1996
Cover Price: $2.95
1 copy available for $2.13 		Cris DornausCris Dornaus