by Saily Marrero Thi Bui’s 2017, graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do tackles her family history and traumas caused by the Vietnam War. The book also covers topics of childbirth, miscarriage, child death, violence, and war which some readers might find distressing. Targeted toward mature audiences interested in modern Vietnamese history, Bui’s memoir covers the First Indochina War in 1946, the Vietnam War (1955-1975) (also known as the Second Indochina War), and her family’s immigration to the U.S. in the 1980s. It’s important to note that in the U.S., the Vietnam war is often examined in the context… Read More
The Most Natural Thing In The World – collected edition
By including Francesca Cassavetti’s collected edition of TMNTITW here, I don’t wish to ‘medicalise’ childbirth. As the title suggests, women had been doing it themselves for a long time before maternity units, midwives and obstetricians. I am including it because medical staff do have a role to play nowadays and it is good to know how ‘we’ are percieved by the ‘service user’ so I will happily include any comics with depictions of healthcare workers. I also include it because I think it’s a great little graphic novel; It is funny, light-hearted, self depreciating, and very, very well observed. The… Read More