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
Thick and Thin
A short story about eating disorders in males, by Australian comics artist Bruce Mutard. Published in Tango, Love and Food. Edited by Bernard Caleo, published by Cardigan Comics. can be viewed online here This is what Bruce says about the story: ‘There is a popular perception that eating disorders only afflict women and are in response to popular media portrayals of skinny models and actresses as exemplars of modern beauty and femininity. Bullshit and bullshit. Perhaps my view is overly subjective, but for me, an eating disorder is generated by low self-esteem, not necessarily linked to appearance, wherein one attempts to… Read More