What I Learned When I Created a Graphic Memoir About My Trauma By Hugh D’Andrade When I was 10 years old, my next door neighbor was brutally murdered. The victim’s sons and I discovered the body. That was 45 years ago, and to this day I can still remember the feeling of shock and terror at what I saw. At some point, I learned not to talk about what I had experienced. Perhaps I felt that, since it wasn’t my mother who had been murdered, it wasn’t really something that happened to me. Certainly, whatever trauma I suffered was nowhere … Continue reading Spotlight: The Murder Next Door