by Alaina Santiago My Perfectly Imperfect Body by Debbie Tung presents a graphic medicine memoir that dives into what it really means to live in a body that’s not cooperative. The story explores feelings of hardship, frustration, and what that experience looks like to the outside world. Similar to other graphic medicine works such as, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michaelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney, The Bad Doctor: The Troubled Life and Times of Benjamin Bennett, MD by Ian Williams, and Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 by MK Czerwiec, the strength of these individuals cannot be understood through… Read More
Facing Feelings – Inside the World of Raina Telgemeier
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Shut Up and Feel – An Adult Picture Book on Emotions
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Crumble
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Land of the Dead – Lessons from the Underworld on Storytelling and Living
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My Emotions and Me: A Graphic Novel to Help You Understand Your Feelings
by Cassy Lee I stumbled upon this beautiful comic book in a bookstore in Ho Chi Minh City’s Book Alley while traveling in Vietnam. A woman looking very free and happy soars across the cover with angelic wings and furry friends hang glide alongside her, promising to help me understand my feelings. As someone leaning deeply into the exploration of comics as graphic medicine in an MFA in Comics program, this book sang to me. Art-mella (or Armella Leung) lives and works in France and is on a search for meaning. She shares her learning of scientific, spiritual, and… Read More