We Ate Wonder Bread: A Memoir of Growing Up on the West Side of Chicago

In We Ate Wonder Bread: A Memoir of Growing Up on the West Side of Chicago, Nicole Hollander, best known for her long-running Sylvia strip, turns her wry, affectionate eye to her own 1950s childhood. Published by Fantagraphics in 2018, this single-issue comic captures a specific time and place through vignettes of family, neighborhood rituals, and the small absurdities of midcentury life. It’s a compact, personal slice of history from a beloved cartoonist, offering a warm and humorous look at the everyday details that shaped her.