awaiting review
In Limbo
By Andrew Field Trigger warning: suicide attempted. The amount of pressure teenagers feel to fit in, to meet expectations—academic, familial, social—is a narrative of impossibility and invisibility. For this reason, teenagers are singularly vulnerable in our society and culture. I know I experienced this. I struggled with depression as a teenager in high school, an endless sense that I did not fit in anywhere, that there was something wrong with me. I felt unseen, unheard; and later that depression developed into a mental illness, schizoaffective disorder. Deb JJ Lee’s In Limbo is a book uniquely suited to discuss these issues… Read More
Disrepute
Awaiting review. Want to write a review for us? Read a review of Disrepute on Brian Fies’s blog : ‘Disrepute (100 pages) is a collection of comics by Thom Ferrier, the nom de plume of Ian Williams (I always wonder if it’s all right to rat out his secret identity like that but he’s not shy about revealing it himself). Ian is a physician, artist and cartoonist in the U.K. who invited me to speak at the first International Graphic Medicine Conference in London in 2010. We’ve since worked together organizing the 2011 conference in Chicago and next July’s in Toronto. He also has the prettiest penmanship of anyone I’ve… Read More


