Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki

Tamaki and Valero-O’Connell discussed Freddie, Laura Dean and the book over email. 'Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me' will be published by First Second Books in 2018.

'It’ll feel familiar and cleansing to anyone that's had to navigate both the nuances of loving someone that can't love them back, and of doing right by the people that can.' ''Laura Dean' is a layered exploration of the complex web of harm and care that people can cause each other while they're still growing into themselves, and it makes me smile with just as much force as it breaks my heart,' said Valero-O'Connell. 'So this is a story about being in love and it’s a story about breaking up, which is something that sometimes happens after you fall in love,' said Tamaki. 'For me, it’s always felt like so much of being in love happens after you’ve found someone to pack into your aorta.'

'I feel like the story of love is so often about finding someone, that one amazing someone to be with you forever,' said Tamaki. Rosemary Valero-O'Connell's concept art for 'Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me.' (First Second Books) See the most-read stories in Entertainment this hour >įor 'Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me,' Tamaki is collaborating with Valero-O’Connell, a cartoonist and illustrator whose comics work includes the art for the 'Lumberjanes' one-shot 'Beyond Bay Leaf' (written by Faith Erin Hicks) and the cover for the first 'Steven Universe' original graphic novel.

In addition to her graphic novel and comic book work, she is the author of YA novels such as '(You) Set Me on Fire' and 'Saving Montgomery Sole.' Writer Tamaki is best known for the graphic novels 'Skim' and 'This One Summer,' which she co-created with her cousin Jillian Tamaki. Everybody knows all about the pair’s relationship drama, and while Freddy is aware she really just needs to break it off with Laura Dean, letting go isn’t the easiest thing to do. What happens after you find love? Sometimes you break up.Īt least that’s the case in Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell's upcoming graphic novel, 'Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me.'įreddy, a teenager, is in a complicated on-again, off-again relationship with Laura Dean.

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki