In Lucky Vol. 2 #1, Gabrielle Bell continues her journal comics begun in her recent collection, Lucky, chronicling her life as an emerging professional cartoonist. Her pages are filled with the simple adventures and technicalities of the lifestyle: guerilla photocopy runs, trips to comic conventions, slide presentations and panels, art shows, after-parties and poetry readings. Bell tells of her experiences performing her surreal tale of unlikely love “My Afflication,” a surreal adventure story also included here.