Title: Dumb: Living without a Voice
Author: Georgia Webber
Illustrator: Georgia Webber
Primary Health Topic: Loss of Voice
Secondary Health Topic(s): Throat Injury, Disability
Special Considerations: N/A
Publication Date: August 7, 2018
Publisher: Fantagraphics
ISBN: 9781683961161
GM Review: Review by Kevin Wolf
Annotation: Originally published as a series of mini-comics, Georgia Webber’s Dumb: Living Without A Voice is a brilliant work of comics memoir, using the freedom of the medium to illustrate the experience of losing one’s voice. Webber uses color (red) and collage to show not only the physical pain of her condition, but the emotional, psychic pain that comes from losing something so vital to one’s identity. Readers with their own chronic health conditions, particularly those who are often left with insufficient help from the healthcare system, will see themselves in the story.
Annotated By: Matthew Noe