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Charisma Check: A Review of Just Roll with It by Veronica Agarwal and Lee Durfey-Lavoie

Feb. 24, 2022 by Guest

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Guest Review by A. David Lewis   Like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) itself, Just Roll with It by Veronica Agarwal and Lee Durfey-Lavoie does not reveal itself immediately. The YA graphic novel betrays nothing on its cover, with its summary blurb, or for the first sixty-plus pages of the story. With no overt initial comment, the narrative follows sixth-grader Maggie as she navigates the new challenges of middle school. Her two older sisters had been exemplary students in their time, so Maggie feels the additional burden to excel in addition to her anxiety with friends, classes, and after-school clubs. She is… Read More

Tags: adolescence, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD

The Golden Hour

Dec. 30, 2021 by Guest

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Guest review by Lorraine Chun   All too frequently we hear or read in the news about another shooting at a school, but rarely do we hear about its impact on students. The Golden Hour by Niki Smith addresses how an adolescent copes with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after witnessing his teacher gunned down.  This is a story about healing and resiliency, new friendships, and even young love. Manuel Soto is a latchkey middle schooler whose mother puts in long hours as a nurse at a health facility.  He takes solace in his photography art work and is a loner at school with no friends and is by himself when he gets home. The story begins with… Read More

Tags: adolescence, anxiety, gun violence, PTSD, therapy

Go with the Flow

Mar. 5, 2020 by Kevin Wolf

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Book Review by Kevin Wolf   In its own quiet way this graphic novel, Go with the Flow by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann, provides an excellent teaching tool. Though it’s mainly for middle and high school students, I highly recommend it for all ages, genders and orientations. This graphic novel’s actions are in real time with all dates lining up with the 2019-2020 school year. It’s about friendship, menstruation, bullying, frustration with school administration, fighting back, and taking responsibility. Go with the Flow revolves around four diverse characters Christine, Brit, and Abby, three friends from childhood, and the new… Read More

Tags: adolescence, bullying, menstruation, periods, relationships

Wait, What? A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up

Dec. 3, 2019 by Kevin Wolf

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Book Review by Kevin Wolf When I was a child, perhaps age 8 before my younger brother was born, my mother sat down to read me a book with the title Where Do Babies Come From? I don’t recall the author. It was a picture book. My mother wasn’t very comfortable talking about sex, and used this book to give me my sex education; I only remember the picture of a sperm finding an egg. There’s a new graphic sex education guide with five fictional adolescents (Rico, Malia, Max, Sam, & Alexis) talking “about everything.” The book is called Wait,… Read More

Tags: adolescence, Puberty, relationships, sex, sexual health

The Return of the Honey Buzzard by Aimée de Jongh

May. 16, 2017 by Kevin Wolf

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By Kevin Wolf   This fictional graphic novel has the impact and realism of a non-fictional work about bullying, depression and suicide. The back cover indicates this work is Aimée de Jongh’s first graphic novel, though it’s a very mature work. The drawings are beautiful, showing scenes from nature, grade school, and adulthood. The story flows naturally with events surrounding Simon. He’s having trouble closing the multi-generational used bookstore he inherited from his father. The graphic work shows recent and past painful moments that he feels extreme guilt about observing but not preventing. Some scenes Simon lives and some are… Read More

Tags: adolescence, bullying, depression, mental health

Moose

Sep. 12, 2016 by Kevin Wolf

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Book Review by Kevin Wolf Moose is a tale of a bullied high school student, Joe. The story begins on a winter’s day outdoors with a slow zoom in on a house, a window, a child eating breakfast and not wanting to take the school bus. He’s consistently late for school because he refuses to take the bus and instead climbs a fence and trudges through a woods where he sometimes encounters a moose. The moose towers over Joe, but leaves him alone and walks away. Nature, and not among people, is where Joe feels most safe. I recommend this graphic… Read More

Tags: adolescence, bullying, education tool

Sky in Stereo

Sep. 12, 2016 by Kevin Wolf

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Book Review by Kevin Wolf I recommend this black and white graphic novel which is narrated in the first person by Iris. Starting in 1989 Iris’ mom, Gina, becomes a Jehovah’s Witness. Gina’s live-in boyfriend is skeptical about the Witnesses. Iris initially joins her mother’s new belief system through supporting “evidence” in the apocalyptic messages in her childhood Narnia books by C.S. Lewis. Iris finds the Kingdom Hall meetings tame relative to the end-times that they’re supposed to be awaiting. Iris becomes frustrated in her teen years, flees the conservatism of her mom’s religion, and turns to illicit drugs to… Read More

Tags: adolescence, family, relationships, substance abuse

Survive Manhwa Anatomy Series

Sep. 1, 2016 by Kevin Wolf

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review by Kevin Wolf Survive! Inside the Human Body Volumes 1: The Digestive System (ISBN 978-1593274719), 2: The Circulatory System (ISBN 978-1593274726), and 3: The Nervous System (ISBN (978-1593274733) written by Gomdori Co. (Seok-Young Song in actuality) and illustrated by Hyun-Dong Han and published by No Starch Press © 2013 English translation These books are translated from Korean and come from South Korea. The term for Korean comic books is Manhwa (pronounced man-wa). The characters show exaggerated emotions through facial and body expressions, sweat and salivating, and jumping around. Narration comes from a disembodied head of the character narrating. The… Read More

Tags: adolescence, anatomy, body systems, disease, physiology, Teaching

The Truth About Stacey

Aug. 20, 2014 by Comic Nurse

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Special guest review by Kerri Sparling of the diabetes blog sixuntilme.com. Stacey McGill had diabetes and – holy islets – she was cool. She was one of the lead characters in Ann M. Martin’s The Baby-Sitters Club series, acting as treasurer of the club.  You can go deep in this wiki, where Stacey is described as having “a very sophisticated style, which comes from having lived in New York. She loves wearing flashy clothes and jewelry and doing different things with her hair, which she keeps looking fabulous.”  FABULOUS!  Some of Stacey’s likes are cited:  “babysitting, math, money, shopping, pigs, Mary Poppins,… Read More

Tags: adolescence, adolescent, diabetes, endocrine, Kerri Sparling

New Podcast Wednesday: Joyce Brabner’s Keynote Address

Oct. 3, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. This week’s podcast is the keynote address Joyce Brabner gave on July 23 at the 2012 Comics & Medicine conference in Toronto. She opens by describing her talk as, “What happens to us when we tell these stories.” Brabner then talks about some experiences in writing reportage comics, primarily about young victims of war and other atrocities. She talks about collaboration with her husband Harvey Pekar, and she talks about her role as “character Joyce.”… Read More

Categories: Podcast, Podcasts Tags: adolescence, cancer, Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, Our Cancer Year, trauma, war comics

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