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Home / memory

Ephemera: A Memoir

Mar. 16, 2023 by Guest

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by Tenli Yavneh   In Briana Loewinsohn’s graphic memoir Ephemera, we are drawn into the emotional world of a woman searching backward in time for memories of her mother, who died when the author was a child. The mother was mostly absent during Loewinsohn’s childhood due to mental health issues, eventually dying of a related cause, probably suicide, though the author does not state that explicitly. Loewinsohn was quite young when the events of the book took place, and her adult desire to make sense of her memories is portrayed in bookended sections around the core of her childhood story,… Read More

Tags: death of a parent, depression, grief, memory, mental illness, suicide

M Is for Monster

Jan. 22, 2023 by Guest

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awaiting review

Tags: accidental death, death, memory, reanimation, science, science-fiction

Why Don’t you Love Me?

Jan. 17, 2023 by Guest

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By Prof. Annemarie Jutel Parallel realities are a narrative trope of our time.  Confusion about who and where we are features prominently in many forms of storytelling.  From Bones and All (Guadagnino, 2022) to Acting Class (Drnaso, 2022) and The Book of Niall (Jones, 2022), the idea that there might be alternate threads of reality, to which we have intermittent or elective access, and which run alongside the one in which we are situated, is a common story telling device. Why Don’t You Love Me? by Paul Rainey–a compilation of strips created over many years and released on social media… Read More

Tags: confusion, depression, family relations, memory, mental health, metaphysical reality

Look Again A Memoir by Elizabeth A Trembley

New Podcast Episode: Look Again Discussion with Elizabeth Trembley

Nov. 8, 2022 by Alice Jaggers

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Alice Jaggers talks with Elizabeth Trembley about her recent book, Look Again. Her memoir follows her various versions of her experience finding a dead body in the woods and the mental companions she has along the way. Both Alice and Beth have experienced trauma, which influences their discussion on the weirdness of trauma, how finicky memory can be, what it means to have a safe space violated, and the importance of using art (especially comics) to heal. After this interview was recorded, Beth hosted Drawing Together (link below)! Elizabeth Trembley’s Bio: Beth grew up knowing herself to be a kid who… Read More

Categories: Podcast, Podcasts Tags: memory, trauma

Call for Papers: A Nordic Network for Comics Research conference hosted by Ghent University in collaboration with the University of Liège (ACME) and KU Leuven

May. 19, 2016 by Ian Williams

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A Nordic Network for Comics Research conference hosted by Ghent University in collaboration with the University of Liège (ACME) and KU Leuven  April 20-21, 2017 Ghent, Belgium   Introduction “Memory is tabooed as unpredictable, unreliable, irrational”, deplored Adorno more than half a century ago (122). Although nowadays the study of memory has established itself, memory remains an untamable beast, broad and interdisciplinary in its scope. This conference seeks to understand memory, and more specifically  the relationship between comics and memory, by welcoming papers on the following three lines of inquiry:   1. Personal memory Research on comics and personal memory… Read More

Categories: Call For Papers, comics, Research, symposia Tags: memory, Nordic Network for Comics Research

Fun Home

Jul. 22, 2012 by Ian Williams

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Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) chronicles the events of Bechdel’s childhood in the early 1970’s and her entry into adulthood and homosexuality at university. Her father was a repressed, unhappy aesthete, trapped in family life in his home town in rural Pennsylvania, running the family funeral home and teaching at the local school to make ends meet. He was a closet gay who had affairs with young men an ended up in court for plying teenage boys with alcohol. His death, most probably a suicide, haunts the book, an “extended meditation on history, memory, identity and trauma”… Read More

Tags: autobiography, bereavement, gay sexuality, identity, memory, OCD, suicide, trauma

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