Reflection and Reconstruction

Alert to some online work from Heinz Insu Fenkl, which arrives via Brighton conference organizer Muna Al-Jawad,

I teach a course called Visual/Verbal Storytelling
at the State University of New York at New Paltz,
and I’m an old comics hand from my grad student
days. For the past year or so I’ve been working with
the artist Kevin Somers and the Psychiatrist Stefan
Kruszewski on adapting Stefan’s graphic memoir,
which is a combination of self-reflections of childhood
and case studies from his professional work (fictionalized
a bit to protect privacy). The childhood memoirs are
relevant to graphic medicine because they are a form
of self-analysis through the process of reflection and
reconstruction, but the case studies are especially
interesting because they show a perspective that hardly
ever gets represented.

You can see two exerpts of the memoir which were published electronically. First, “Mowing”

and Worms & Guinea Pigs