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"If you haven&amp;amp;#8217;t had the terrifying experience of starting over after a relationship, count yourself lucky. If you have, you&amp;amp;#8217;ll want to check out this cool website. It&amp;amp;#8217;s called Fling Girl LA, and it&amp;amp;#8217;s an online comic book about a girl named Maggie who leaves a 5-year relationship after catching her boyfriend with some girls that aren&amp;amp;#8217;t her. Why yes, that does hit very close to home for me. You&amp;amp;#8217;ll laugh reading about the stages of a breakup that everyone goes through: the irrational &amp;amp;#8220;Should I take him back?&amp;amp;#8221; hesitation (Maggie reluctantly agrees to let her ex take her out for an apology dinner to try to win her back, and he asks her to split the check), the stuffing your face with comfort food (&amp;amp;#8220;I don&amp;amp;#8217;t even like Funyuns,&amp;amp;#8221; Maggie says as she scarfs a bag), and the realization that while this might be harder than you thought, you&amp;amp;#8217;ll make it through. For the record, I personally like both cottage cheese and Rachel Ray. If this sounds spot on to you (it did to me!), it&amp;amp;#8217;s because the creators have been there. Maggie&amp;amp;#8217;s story was inspired by author Dina Gachman&amp;amp;#8217;s real life experience. Dina and Amy Saaed, the illustrator, decided to turn the story into a comic book after overhearing so many women discuss the trauma of the dating scene, especially in LA. You don&amp;amp;#8217;t have to live there to appreciate it, though--dating is confusing everywhere, trust me. If comics have never been your thing, rest assured, they weren&amp;amp;#8217;t Dina and Amy&amp;amp;#8217;s either. But now they love it, and I bet you&amp;amp;#8217;ll love their take on it too. In addition to the storyline, it&amp;amp;#8217;s just plain fun to look at. The drawings are gorgeous, and the girls take the fashion aspect of each issue seriously, pulling images from magazines and celebs to inspire the character&amp;amp;#8217;s outfits. They&amp;amp;#8217;re hoping to get a male perspective for &amp;amp;#8220;He Said&amp;amp;#8221; supplements with the male character&amp;amp;#8217;s point of view in future issues. As Dina told me, &amp;amp;#8220;We want guys to have a say too. We learned that in the dating world, often they&amp;amp;#8217;re not as lame/rude/terrible as we think.&amp;amp;#8221; Fling Girl LA just launched a new website--there&amp;#x27;s other fun stuff, like cocktail recipes, as well--and released its fifth issue. The women behind it are so cool, and I think you&amp;amp;#8217;ll like spending time in the world they&amp;amp;#8217;ve created. Check out Fling Girl and let me know what you think! Are you a comic book/graphic novel kind of gal? Can you relate to this story? I know I can. Other awesome ladies we love: *12 Dating DOs and DON&amp;#x27;Ts Even Experts Follow: Stars of Bravo&amp;#x27;s New Show Miss Advised Share Their Advice *Hesitant to Label Yourself a &amp;quot;Feminist&amp;quot;? 19-Year-Old Author Julie Zeilinger Can Tell You Why That&amp;#x27;s A Little F&amp;#x27;d Up *G(irls)20 Summit: 9 Holy-Wow Moments From the 2012 Event (These Are Your Next Batch of World Leaders, Ladies!) Photo: Fling Girl "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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