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Purchase your copy of We Saw Scenery: The Early Diaries of Merrill Markoe and you’ll receive an autographed bookplate. Just fill out the form below and upload a copy of your receipt, and we’ll send you the bookplate designed and signed by Merrill Markoe, the four-time Emmy Award winning writer, essayist, and cartoonist.
“Merrill Markoe got all the talent. In addition to being an Emmy-award winning comedy writer, she’s also a top-notch artist. We Saw Scenery is revealing, sad, funny, and, above all, relatable. Merrill captures the experience of a young woman finding—and holding onto—her own voice. And we’re all lucky she did.” —Nell Scovell, author of Just the Funny Parts
In her first ever graphic memoir, this legendary comedy writer unearths her treasured diaries, long kept under lock and key, to illustrate the hilarious story of her preteen and teen years and how she came to realize that her secret power was her humor. Wielding her layered and comically absurd style, Markoe takes readers back through her time as a Girl Scout, where she learned that “scouting” was really more about learning housewifery skills, to her earliest crushes on uniquely awful boys and her growing obsession with television.
Perfect for fans of Roz Chast, Allie Brosh, and Lynda Barry, We Saw Scenery is a laugh-out-loud story of a girl growing up, told from the perspective of the woman she became, and it will speak to all who wanted to understand themselves in the midst of their own maturing.