Dreschler, Debbie – Daddy’s Girl

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Daddy’s Girl

There are books that you can read in their entirety and have no opinion of other than “eh”. This isn’t one of them, one way or another. This is mostly about a little girl, Lily, dealing with the sexual abuse of her father. Obviously, it affects her everywhere. Her dealings with other boys her age and the world in general suffers terribly from all of her pain. This isn’t an easy thing to read, honestly. Her naked pain (if this isn’t autobiographical she does an incredible job of depicting this atrocity) is hard to look at. Still, it’s an important work, and it’s done really well. The art reminds me a lot of Ariel Bordeaux, although I’m sure that’s just a coincidence because they were both doing comics at the same time (the bulk of these are between ’92 and ’95). In other words, check this out, if you haven’t already. She has a new book coming out soon too, which I’m going to check out just as soon as this one works its way through my system. It’s still hard to believe that there are people in this world like the father in this book…