The Shiniest Jewel: A Family Love Story One Good Egg: An Illustrated Memoir Baby: A Soppy Story Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos New Life Waves The Facts of Life Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression Books reviewed by Kevin Wolf Every pregnancy is typical and atypical; that is, they are all unique; just like the stories reviewed here. Some are more medically informative than others. They each cover different topics but don’t view them as being the end all for any of those pregnancy-types. The stories provide two forms: words and pictures both of which… Read More
A Journey to Motherhood by Camille Aubry – Chapter 7
Graphic Medicine is very proud to present the seventh chapter of Camille Aubry’s A Journey to Motherhood. This is a part-memoir part-fiction comic book depicting the fun and less-fun bits of maternity, from pregnancy to the toddler years, told with dry, and at times caustic, humour. Read Chapter 6 here. Visit Camille’s website. Follow Camille on Instagram. Camille Aubry is a French graphic artist based in Bristol. She graduated as an architect in Paris before completing an MA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts. Camille works as a live illustrator (scribe), documenting events, conferences, seminars, concerts, meetings, presentations and pitches with… Read More
Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag
Guest review by Katie Laing A.K Summers in Pregnant Butch provides a realistic, relatable and humorous narrative into her experience of pregnancy as a butch, lesbian woman. The non-fictional graphic novel is the first by A.K Summers, “written in 2005 after the birth of her son” [1]. Written in first person, she challenges themes of societal norms, masculinity and gender roles whilst living in New York in the 1980s. Teek Summers uses comic form to accentuate and visualise the journey and struggles of the common yet underexpressed phenomenon that is queer pregnancy. Teek and her girlfriend Vee experience social pressure, as a result… Read More
A Journey to Motherhood by Camille Aubry – Chapter 6
Graphic Medicine is very proud to present the sixth chapter of Camille Aubry’s A Journey to Motherhood. This is a comic book diary depicting the fun and less-fun bits of maternity, from pregnancy to the toddler years, told with dry, and at times caustic, humour. Read Chapter 5 here. Next installment will be posted on the 16th of March. Visit Camille’s website. Follow Camille on Instagram. Camille Aubry is a French graphic artist based in Bristol. She graduated as an architect in Paris before completing an MA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts. Camille works as a live illustrator (scribe), documenting… Read More
A Journey to Motherhood by Camille Aubry – Chapter 5
Graphic Medicine is very proud to present the fifth chapter of Camille Aubry’s A Journey to Motherhood.This is an autobiographical comic book diary depicting the fun and less-fun bits of maternity, from pregnancy to the toddler years, told with dry, and at times caustic, humour. Read Chapter 4 here. Read Chapter 6 => Visit Camille’s website. Follow Camille on Instagram. Camille Aubry is a French graphic artist based in Bristol. She graduated as an architect in Paris before completing an MA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts. Camille works as a scribe, documenting events, conferences, seminars, concerts, meetings, presentations and… Read More
A Journey to Motherhood by Camille Aubry – Chapter 3
Graphic Medicine is very proud to present the third chapter of Camille Aubry’s A Journey to Motherhood.This is an autobiographical comic book diary depicting the fun and less-fun bits of maternity, from pregnancy to the toddler years, told with dry, and at times caustic, humour. Read Chapter 2 here. Read Chapter 4 here. Visit Camille’s website. Follow Camille on Instagram. Camille Aubry is a French graphic artist based in Bristol. She graduated as an architect in Paris before completing an MA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts. Camille works as a scribe, documenting events, conferences, seminars, concerts, meetings, presentations and… Read More
A Journey to Motherhood by Camille Aubry – Chapter 2
Graphic Medicine is very proud to present the second chapter of Camille Aubry’s A Journey to Motherhood. This is an autobiographical comic book diary depicting the fun and less-fun bits of maternity, from pregnancy to the toddler years, told with dry, and at times caustic, humour. A first version of this chapter was previously published on Mom Egg Review in May 2019. Read Chapter 1 here. Read Chapter 3 here. Visit Camille’s website. Follow Camille on Instagram. Camille Aubry is a French graphic artist based in Bristol. She graduated as an architect in Paris before completing an MA in Illustration at Camberwell… Read More
Graphic Medicine Introducing: Camille Aubry, A Journey to Motherhood.
Graphic Medicine is very proud to present Camille Aubry’s A Journey to Motherhood. This is an autobiographical comic book diary depicting the fun and less-fun bits of maternity, from pregnancy to the toddler years, told with dry, and at times caustic, humour. This graphic narrative has been twice long-listed for the Laydeez do Comics Prize and was exhibited at the Representing Realness show in London this summer. A black & white extract of 32 pages, which has since sold out, was launched at the ELCAF festival this year. Graphic Medicine will be showing A Journey to Motherhood, one chapter at at time, in… Read More
Eat More Comics: The Best of the Nib
Book Review by Kevin Wolf The Nib was nominated for several Ignatz awards at the September 2019 Small Press eXpo (SPX) in Baltimore, MD. The nominations were for Outstanding Anthology for their Death and Family issues (Edited by Matt Bors, Matt Lubchanksy and Eleri Harris), and for Outstanding Series (Matt Bors, editor-in-chief). The Nib won for Outstanding Series. At Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) on September 27, 2019, from a CXC press release, “Matt Bors received the Transformative Work Award. Bors arrived in Columbus this week seeking to drive attention to the financial reversal faced by the satirical magazine The Nib,… Read More
I(V)F: A Memoir of Infertility
guest review by Rebecca Starr IF: A Memoir of Infertility details Sheila Alexander’s journey through in vitro fertilization (IVF). After trying to conceive a child for over a year, Sheila’s doctor suggests IVF as a next step. Her graphic memoir details her 407-day IVF journey. While Sheila does not narrate every day of her IVF journey, she takes us through the most important ones. Her often-humorous illustrations help describe procedures and internal changes. A hysteroscopy is visualized as a fashion shoot for the fallopian tubes, and after follicle stimulation, the increased number of eggs stage a protest to “emancipate the… Read More