Cinders McLeod of the Globe and Mail has posted this article that grew out of our Toronto conference: Graphic medicine: female cartoonists tackle life’s dark moments “Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse won millions of fans with largely autobiographical stories of family foibles. But for a growing wave of female artists, comic art has the potential to go deeper – speaking to the dark side of domestic life and personal demons. Their subject matter includes anorexia, abuse, depression and death. There’s humour to balance the pain, however. And a clear payoff to the genre, sometimes called ‘graphic medicine’: a healing… Read More
Graphic medicine: female cartoonists tackle life’s dark moments
This article in the Globe and Mail by Cinders McLeod http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/graphic-medicine-female-cartoonists-tackle-lifes-dark-moments/article4475765/