Diet. It’s an ugly word. But cartoonist Lucy Knisley decided to celebrate the excellent publisher First Second taking on her food themed work Relish by, well, going on a form of fast and surviving on a liquid diet for a week (I don’t think I’d manage that, even if the liquid was Guinness), all chronicled day by day in a comic strip on her LiveJournal. I’m not a fan of diets – like Garfield I think they are just ‘die’ with a ‘t’ at the end – but its an interesting strip as Lucy uses it not just as a form of diet but as a way of re-assessing her relationship to and appreciation of food and how eating relates to aspects of her personality like moods in a very honest way. (link via BoingBoing, who got it from The Daily Cross Hatch)
(panels from The Fast by and (c) Lucy Knisley)
October 20th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Thanks for fun…Diet is not so bad…