Self-esteem

This comic book can make you thin! This comic book can make you thin!

Salon cartoonist Carol Lay discusses the world's first diet-book graphic memoir and why the best approach to weight loss is the least sensational.
  • I'm leading a double life

    I thought I was a go-getter, but maybe I'm a slacker!
  • The cheerful idiot

    As the Current Occupant imagines his legacy emerging golden and shining in a hundred years after all of us are deceased, you and I go on.
  • Out of great suffering comes beauty

    Saginaw, Mich., might be sagging but we can admire it for producing poet and teacher Theodore Roethke, and for preserving his boyhood home.
  • Hey, skinny bitch!

    It's a vegan manifesto masquerading as a diet fad. But the only thing this weight-loss book will help you lose is self-esteem.

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