Friends, family and fans showed up at Roche Winery Tasting Room on East Spain Street on this past Sunday to have books signed by Hilary Campbell, whose cartoons appear in each edition of the Sonoma Valley Sun newspaper as well as the New Yorker magazine.
As noted on the back cover of her new graphic memoir, The Joy of Snacking, “From standup comedian, New Yorker cartoonist, dancer, and author of MURDER BOOK, Sonoma local Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, comes this fresh comic memoir about being a snacker in a world of foodies.
With equal parts humor and unflinching honesty, Hilary traces her life story through food from her childhood as the ultimate picky eater, her teenage and young adult years of disordered eating, and finally learning to love herself again as an adult. Punctuated with ridiculous (but very real! and important!) snack recipes like “a baggie of trail mix” and “burnt toast.”…