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The Sickness, Volume 1

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by Dr. Javier A Suarez The Sickness is disgusting and scary. A trite observation based on the cover, but one that extends into the themes of the work beyond its initial oozing hook. The book shoves you face-first into a vile swamp of squelching entrails and dripping orifices. However, the spectacularly grotesque art from Jenna Cha barely scratches the epidermis of this deep flesh wound that gets worse the more you peel it apart. The book is not scary because it has unnerving imagery, but because of what those images represent. There are motifs of uniquely American war-time anxieties, and… Read More

Hello Sunshine

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Hello Sunshine  Reviewed by Cassy Lee TW: suicide, mental illness, horror (evil demons, murder) Hello Sunshine is a fictional graphic novel about a boy named Alex who goes missing and the friends who go after him. Keezy Young, author of Sunflowers, (2024, GMIC review here) which is a short memoir about her own experience with bipolar disorder, blends reality and fantasy in this gripping YA story of a teen’s disappearance into a mental breakdown and the lengths his friends and family will go through to reach him there. Last semester, Alex was in a sweet new relationship with Noah, a… Read More

Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

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by Saily Marrero   CONTENT ADVISORY Because of the nature of the crimes discussed in this book, this graphic novel should be for mature readers only. Contents include, but are not limited to grave robbing, murder, abuse of all kinds, necrophilia, nudity, and more.   The opening page of Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? begins with the premiere of Alfred Hitchcock’s groundbreaking 1960 film, Psycho, a film inspired by Gein’s horrific crimes. From the start, readers can see the impact of Ed Gein, whose crimes continued on to inspire other films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and The… Read More

Feeding Ghosts – A Graphic Memoir

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by Melanie Anspacher Tessa Hulls’ 2025 Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Feeding Ghosts, is nothing short of extraordinary.  Meticulously researched and created by the author over nearly a decade and filled with beautifully detailed etching-like illustrations that richly cover each page, this work tells not one but many stories that span three generations and as many continents. At the heart of the memoir is Hulls’ grandmother Sun Yi’s severe mental illness and the devastating impact it has on generations of her family. It is told through the emotional and physical journey Hulls takes with her mother, Rose, to piece together and comprehend… Read More

And Now I Spill the Family Secrets

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DISCLAIMER: This memoir is intended for mature audiences and for people who want a better understanding of mental illness. Reader discretion is advised for those who might find mentions of divorce, suicide, suicide ideation, or mental illness triggering or distressing.   Review by Saily Marrero Margaret Kimball’s illustrated memoir, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets, begins with the following line, “My mom was thirty-one when she decided to take her own life” (pg. 2). What follows is the author’s personal and honest portrayal of her childhood and teenage years as she, as an adult, attempts to understand, cope, and… Read More

My Brain Is Different: Stories of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders

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by Soph Myers-Kelley   Monzusu, illustrator and curator of the stories in this book, is a Japanese adult with ADHD as well as a parent of children in the “gray zone of developmental disorders” (2). She created My Brain Is Different: Stories of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders, because she had such a hard time finding the stories of regular, neurodivergent people when researching for herself and her children. At the time she wanted “a frame of reference, real examples of how I should raise my sons, and to see stories of people with my condition holding down a job,… Read More