Improve : how I discovered improv and conquered social anxiety

Title
Improve : how I discovered improv and conquered social anxiety

Personal Author EPSB
Alex, Graudins

Summary
A graphic memoir for teens about the author's efforts to overcome her social anxiety by learning improv comedy. Alex has crippling social anxiety. All day long, she is trapped in a web of negative thoughts and paralyzing fear. To pull herself free of this endless cycle, Alex does something truly terrifying: she signs up for an improv comedy class. By forcing herself to play silly games and act out ridiculous scenes, Alex confronts the unbearable weight of embarrassment, makes new friends, rediscovers parts of herself that she'd hidden away, and ultimately faces her greatest fear by performing onstage for all to see.

Other Title
How I discovered improv and conquered social anxiety.

Year Published
2022

Physical Description
219 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Personal Subject
Graudins, Alex-Comic books, strips, etc.
 
Graudins, Alex.
 
Graudins, Alex-Cartoons and comics

Subject
Social phobia -- Comic books, strips, etc.
 
Social phobia.
 
Social phobia in adolescence -- Comic books, strips, etc.
 
Social phobia in adolescence.
 
Comedy -- Comic books, strips, etc.
 
Comedy.
 
Teenagers -- Comic books, strips, etc.
 
Teenagers.

Genre
Autobiographical comics.
 
Nonfiction comics.
 
Humorous comics.
 
Graphic novels.

Summary
A graphic memoir for teens about the author's efforts to overcome her social anxiety by learning improv comedy. Alex has crippling social anxiety. All day long, she is trapped in a web of negative thoughts and paralyzing fear. To pull herself free of this endless cycle, Alex does something truly terrifying: she signs up for an improv comedy class. By forcing herself to play silly games and act out ridiculous scenes, Alex confronts the unbearable weight of embarrassment, makes new friends, rediscovers parts of herself that she'd hidden away, and ultimately faces her greatest fear by performing onstage for all to see.

ISBN
9781250208224
 
9781250208231

Publisher
New York : First Second, 2022.
 
©2022


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Edmonton Christian WestYA GN GRABook38515000497621Young Adult