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Ariel Schrag was born on 29 December, 1979 in Berkeley, California, is an American cartoonist and television writer. Discover Ariel Schrag's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 44 years old?

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Age 44 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 29 December 1979
Birthday 29 December
Birthplace Berkeley, California
Nationality United States

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1979

Ariel Schrag (born December 29, 1979) is an American cartoonist and television writer who achieved critical recognition at an early age for her autobiographical comics.

Her novel Adam provoked controversy with its theme of a heterosexual teenage boy becoming drawn into the LGBTQ community of New York.

Schrag accepts the label of ‘dyke comic book artist’.

While attending Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California, Schrag self-published her first comic series, Awkward, depicting events from her first year, originally selling copies to friends and family.

Schrag then published three more graphic novels based on her next three years of school: Definition, Potential, and Likewise.

The comics describe Schrag's experiences with family life, going to concerts, drug-taking, high school crushes, and coming out as bisexual and later as lesbian.

1998

Schrag graduated from high school in 1998.

2000

Schrag has stated she feels this is to the book's benefit, as transgender issues were much less visible during the 2000s, meaning that Adam's ignorance about the transgender community was much more justifiable than it would be in a modern setting.

Schrag was also interested in exploring her perceptions of the LGBT community and the subtle prejudices its members may hold.

Schrag addressed biphobia and heterophobia through the character Gillian, who was inspired by Constance McMillen.

2003

She graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in English in 2003, and has continued to work as a cartoonist and writer.

Schrag was a writer for the third and fourth seasons of the Showtime series The L Word, and for the second season of the HBO series How To Make It in America.

2004

The documentary Confession: A Film About Ariel Schrag was released in 2004.

It explores the then-23-year-old Schrag's world in which she "negotiates fame, obsesses about disease, and discusses the way she sees as a dyke comic book artist."

Schrag is a part-time faculty member at The New School in Manhattan, where she teaches in the writing program.

Schrag participates in the artistic community Yaddo, and the queer-centric creative retreat Radar Lab.

2006

Adam is coming-of-age story which follows Adam, a seventeen-year-old boy who comes to New York City to live with his older sister for the summer of 2006.

Adam is straight and cisgender, but is introduced to the LGBTQ community of New York through his sister, an LGBTQ advocate.

During his stay, he becomes attracted to a gay woman.

After being mistaken for a transgender man, he decides to maintain the deception to date the woman.

In an interview with The Rumpus, Schrag stated that she was inspired to write Adam while working on the third season of The L Word.

All of the writers on that season were lesbian women except one straight, cisgender man, Adam Rapp.

Schrag found the situation unusual and imagined Rapp going to gay bars pretending to be a transgender man to collect material for writing on the show.

She decided to write a novel based on the concept, initially picturing the character Adam as an adult male.

Eventually she decided that it would be in poor taste, and revised the character as a love-struck teenager, stating she believed it was more sympathetic that way because "a teenager is clueless".

She also mentioned having lesbian friends who were attracted to trans men, and thought that "a teenage boy could clean up if he got in there."

Overall she was interested in the challenge of trying to write about a character doing inappropriate things but remaining sympathetic.

In an interview with Brooklyn, she stated she was "intrigued by the idea of taking a standard YA formula — awkward teen boy finds love for the first time — and subverting it with unexpected explicit and hopefully thought-provoking content about gender and sexuality."

In addition to being inspired by co-worker Adam Rapp, Schrag drew inspiration from her experiences in the New York LGBT scene around 2006, while she was in her 20s.

2007

She started writing the book in 2007, and retained the setting even though the book was not released until 2014; it wound up a period piece as a result.

2008

Her follow-up works Definition, Potential, and Likewise were republished by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in 2008 and 2009.

Killer Films is producing a movie adaptation of Potential; Schrag has written the screenplay.

2010

In 2010, McMillen was barred from attending her school's prom with her girlfriend.

Schrag wondered how McMillen would feel if she later discovered she was attracted to men despite the heavy coverage of her as "a proud lesbian", and explored that through Gillian, a lesbian who comes to date Adam.

In an interview with Diva magazine, Schrag discussed the controversy generated by the story's unusual premise.

She explained that the book was intended to be "satirical and nuanced", rather than being a typical story about the experience of being transgender.

Speaking to Lambda Literary, she declared that the novel was intended to be provocative, for the purpose of sparking discussions about gender and sexual identity.

She felt it was particularly important to write characters who acted realistically "obnoxious, self-involved, self-righteous, or entitled," regardless of their gender or sexuality.

2014

In 2014, Schrag published her novel Adam, which in 2019 was adapted into a film of the same name.

Slave Labor Graphics subsequently reprinted Awkward as a graphic novel.