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
MR. GOODCHILD
by Felix Cheong What if the voice in your head isn’t yours? Or worse, what if it is? The first graphic novel by JH Low, a Singapore author/illustrator well known for his children’s picture books, is an unnerving read. I would even go so far as to call it nightmarish. With its empty streets, long shadows and looming architecture, Mr Goodchild is as much a gallery of Giorgio de Chirico-inspired paintings as a graphic novel. It is divided into five sections: “The Voice”, “The Beast”, “Same Old, Same Old”, “Through the Peephole” and an untitled coda. Each section takes… Read More
Ambiguous Blu
awaiting review