Using a sponge as a metaphor, she smartly points out how kids soak up strong opinions easily, from parents, school and the media and then repeat them back to the world (her illustrations shows a sponge kid barfing).
Most of the harassment and bullying Prince endured came from classmates.
In a hilarious panel showing Prince’s birth, the doctor announces to her parents, “Congratulations! It’s a girl!”–while Prince as a newborn thinks, “That’s what you think!” Prince was lucky in that she had relaxed, liberal parents who let her avoid dresses and even let her show up to Kindergarten in pants, a jacket, and a bow-tie. This memoir focuses on her youth, from birth through her high school years. The real problem is, there’s nothing wrong with Liz Prince either, only that as a tomboy, the rigid binary gender identification that kids adhere to wreaked havoc with her self-esteem. Girls are expected to be polite and lovely and pink and frilly and dainty and reserved and…I’m outta here! BLECH! Not that there’s anything wrong with those things, they’ve just never described me. A memoir told anecdotally, Tomboy follows author and zine artist Liz Prince through her early childhood into adulthood and explores her ever-evolving struggles and wishes regarding what it means to "be a girl." From staunchly refuting anything she perceived as being "girly" to the point of misogyny, to discovering through the punk community that your identity is whatever you make of it, regardless of your gender, Tomboy is as much humorous and honest as it is at points uncomfortable and heartbreaking.At the beginning of Liz Prince’s memoir she describes the problematic situation she faced as a kid:Īccording to the schoolyard…boys are: “snips and snails and puppy dog tails,’” while girls are: “sugar and spice and everything nice.” It’s a decrepit old nursery rhyme, but somehow the attitude still prevails. Tomboy is a graphic novel about refusing gender boundaries, yet unwittingly embracing gender stereotypes at the same time, and realizing later in life that you can be just as much of a girl in jeans and a T-shirt as you can in a pink tutu. Liz was somewhere in the middle, and Tomboy is the story of her struggle to find the place where she belonged. But she wasn't exactly one of the guys either, as she quickly learned when her Little League baseball coach exiled her to the outfield instead of letting her take the pitcher's mound.
Growing up, Liz Prince wasn't a girly girl, dressing in pink tutus or playing Pretty Pretty princess like the other girls in her neighborhood.
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