Using old family videos as a framing device, I trace my family history back to the city streets of 1960s Bronx, New York; the parking lot of a Lutheran church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and the Jewish ghettos of Kobe, Japan and Shanghai, China throughout World War II.
Color, 12 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, card stock cover
Using her own autobiographical experiences with the event, Rachel examines the short-lived phenomenon that was “Take Our Daughters to Work Day” in the early 1990s. (The event has since been re-branded as “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day”.)
Color, 12 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, card stock cover
By Mom, By Me: A Tale of Two Childhoods is Rachel Scheer’s latest exploration of her early life and times through autobiographical comics. In her latest “mini comic” Rachel juxtaposes her coming-of-age stories in the suburbs of Washington, DC with those of her mother 40 years earlier, in the Bronx, New York. These honest tales of growing up then and now are told with an innocence and honesty that touches the heart and illuminates the mother-daughter bond.
Black and white, 12 pages, 8.5 x 7, paper cover
Six autobiographical comic tales of the frustration and elation that yoga has brought into the author’s life: from the joys of going to yoga alone, to the perils of attending class out of town, to the dark thoughts that enter one's mind on the mat.
Black and white, 20 pages, 5.5 x 3.25, paper cover
A three volume collection of the author's high school diary adapted into comic book form. Read about the author's misadventures in navigating family, imagination, crushes, decisions about her future and marching band.
Black and white, 24 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, lilac card stock cover