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Lighter Than My Shadow

Mar. 19, 2018 by Crystal Lie

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Guest review by Crystal Yin Lie added 20/3/18 “Pictures mark an increase in the symbolic tenor of the discourse of anorexia,” writes Erin O’Connor in her study of how late-19th century medical photography came to frame anorexia nervosa as a discrete pathology. Wresting the representation of anorexia (and eating disorders more generally) from the realms of medical science, contemporary writers and artists have turned to a different pictorial form—the graphic form—creating a profusion of narratives including British artist Katie Green’s debut memoir, Lighter Than My Shadow (2013). In My Shadow, Green depicts Katie’s experience with eating disorders—beginning with childhood anorexia—anxiety,… Read More

Tags: anorexia, anorexia nervosa, Crystal Yin Lie, eating disorder, Katie Green, sexual abuse

Dust Motes

Sep. 22, 2014 by Comic Nurse

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Tags: anorexia, bulimia, eating disorder

Thick and Thin by Bruce Mutard

Sep. 11, 2012 by Ian Williams

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I have just returned from the Graphic Novel Conference at Mansfield College Oxford, where MK, Michael Green and I conducted a panel on Graphic Medicine. Among the speakers was the Australian graphic novelist and writer Bruce Mutard to whom I was introduced by Paul Gravett. Bruce was interested in what we are doing at Graphic Medicine, and told me that he had previously drawn a strip on eating disorders in the male. The strip is viewable online  (scroll down through Bruce’s short stories to find it) Published in Tango, Love and Food. Edited by Bernard Caleo, published by Cardigan Comics. This… Read More

Categories: comic strip Tags: eating disorder, eating disorders, men's health

The House That Groaned

Aug. 27, 2012 by Ian Williams

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Awaiting GM review Karrie’s talk at Comics and Medicine: Visualising the Stigma of Illness Amazon blurb: “141 Rottin Road ‘A cosy, one-bedroom apartment on the first floor of a charming Victorian conversion. Newly decorated and with a separate kitchen and reception room. Located just a bus ride away from a wide range of shops, restaurants and bars.’ Welcome to The House that Groaned and the six lonely inhabitants of its separate flats, characters so at odds with themselves and their bodies that they could only have stepped out of the pages of a comic novel. There’s Barbara, our make-up artist heroine and… Read More

Tags: Body Image, eating disorder, Food, Karrie Fransman, obesity, sex

Lucille

Aug. 20, 2012 by Ian Williams

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awaiting review on GM amazon blurb: ‘Winner of the Rene Goscinny Prize! With Lucille, Ludovic Debeurme takes on the difficult world of adolescence, following the life of a young anorexic woman and the difficult relationships she has with others, who have significant problems of their own. Influenced by psychoanalysis and the exploration of dreams, Debeurme explores life and fantasies with elegant clean graphics and a profound love of the games of childhood.’

Tags: adolescence, eating disorder, Ludovic Debeurme, psychoanalysis, relationships

Tyranny

Aug. 8, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Awaiting review. Want to write a review for us?   Read a review of Tyranny on Wondrous Reads here.

Tags: adolescence, anorexia nervosa, eating disorder, Lesley Fairfield, mental health, Tyranny

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