Rebecca vs. Rebecca vs. Breakfast is a 10-chapter graphic novel in which a film student must battle the Healthy and Unhealthy voices of her disordered eating in the quest to eat breakfast. It’s not necessarily about the artist. See About for what’s actually about the artist.
Page #1, Panel #1 INT. REBECCA’S DORM ROOM - ABOVE: A floor plan of a depressing dorm room, with a twin bed, a mini-fridge, and a mirror. Beside the bed are a pair of boots and a pair of pants, discarded. REBECCA, a plain Jane with a prison-stripe t-shirt, lies in bed.
CAPTION: Every morning...Panel #2
Rebecca holds her stomach. The stomach “SQUAWKS.”
CAPTION: Rebecca wakes up hungry.Panel #3
Rebecca jolts up, terrified at what she sees...
CAPTION: But her Rules stop her from eating.
THE HEALTHIES
NAME: Becky
IDENTITY: Past Rebecca
JOB: Eat bad food for the sake of good memories (see “Arthur-getti”)
FAVOURITE FOOD: Kid’s Hardy-Har-Hard-boiled at Scrumpty Dumpty’s Diner
WORDS TO LIVE BY: “I’m a growing girl!”
FAVOURITE SONG: The Gudetama theme
NAME: Remainder
IDENTITY: Future Rebecca
JOB: Consider how this will all feel tomorrow
FAVOURITE FOOD:
Deyhydrated Pizza
WORDS TO LIVE BY: “Make me real.”
FAVOURITE SONG: “So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth,” Grimes
NAME: Raven
IDENTITY: Hungry Rebecca
JOB: Send hunger and fullness cues to incompetent interpreters
FAVOURITE FOOD: Anything nutritious and energizing (is it THAT hard?!)
WORDS TO LIVE BY: “Squawk!”
FAVOURITE SONG: “Sweet Surrender,” Bread
THE UNHEALTHIES
NAME: Rules
IDENTITY: Rulemaker Rebecca
JOB: Tenured professor whose doctoral thesis “Weekday Vegan: Creating a Diet With So Many Self-Contradictory Restrictions that Loved Ones Can’t Keep Up and Then Stop Inviting You Places” won her many unimportant academic prizes
FAVOURITE FOOD: Anything allowed by the current edition of “Rebecca’s Food Guide,” in any excess
WORDS TO DIE BY: “Rules are tools.”
FAVOURITE SONG: “Run the World (Girls),” Beyonce
NAME: Rut
IDENTITY: Perfectionist Rebecca
JOB: Grocery store stock-girl in an ongoing discussion with management re: the implementation of “indecision lanes”
FAVOURITE FOOD: The ONLY thing the store is sold out of. EVERY TIME.
WORDS TO DIE BY: “Why move forwards when you can move backwards?!”
FAVOURITE SONG: “Roller Coaster,” Bleachers; “Idea/Intent,” The Beths; “Nothing Better,” The Postal Service; whatever feels 100% in the moment
