The Stranger

Artist and zinester Esther Pearl Watson created her signature character—Tammy Pierce, an angsty high-school girl forever stuck in the 1980s—after finding a teenager's diary in a gas-station bathroom. Watson's new graphic novel, Unlovable, compiles the beautifully crude Tammy Pierce saga (long-running in Bust magazine) and shoves it into a sparkly blue hardcover book. At her first-ever art exhibition in Seattle, Watson will be on hand to sign copies of Unlovable, while Rusty Willoughby serenades her with song. (Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, 1201 S Vale St, 658-0110. 6–9 pm, free.) by Kelly O

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