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Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

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by Gene Bild Reading Julia Wertz’s new book, Impossible People, is akin to a series of comfortable, chatty afternoon visits with an old friend.  It is 300 + pages, and I spent a series of enjoyable afternoons reading it. Beginning with a debacle of a vacation on her 30th birthday, where Julia starts to take responsibility for the mess alcohol has made of her life, the book then flashes back 4 years and starts chronicling her slow journey to sobriety. Unlike other “My Sobriety Struggle” bios I’ve read, Wertz doesn’t go into detail about scary childhood traumas and dysfunctional family… Read More

Come Home, Indio

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Come Home, Indio is the story of the author’s life. This memoir begins with tales of parental love and gut-wrenching instances of family drunkenness, and arcs through Mr. Terry’s own drinking years, eventual recovery and ends with the protagonist finding a kind of peaceful resolution, finally coming home by becoming a water protector fighting the DAPL oil pipeline in North Dakota.

New Podcast: Transformations: Therapy/Not Therapy

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Panel 2C from the 2013 Comics & Medicine panel in Brighton brings us four presentations that relate to the theme of therapy. Use the Quicktime player below to view images along with the audio of Panel 2B. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to an audio-only version of the keynote presentation below.  First up on this panel is Sarah Lightman (author of the forthcoming Book of Sarah from Myriad Editions) of the University of Glasgow and Laydeez do Comics with her talk, “Metamorphosing Difficulties – Post Traumatic Growth in the Autobiographical Comics of Sarah Leavitt, Nicola Streeten and Maureen… Read More

Graphic Medicine Podcast – Panel 1C: Resistance – A Voice for the Voiceless

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Our third panel from Brighton, addressing issues of depression and comics, ethical issues facing medical students, and perceptions of Downs Syndrome. Use the Quicktime players below to view images along with the audio of each presentation. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to an audio-only version of the entire panel. See link at the end of this post.  First up is Marie-Jeanne (MJ) Jacob, presenting her talk, Dark Days: The Ethical Implications Surrounding Depression, and Comics Creation as Retaliation She writes, Two years ago I began to brainstorm a comic discussing depression, as someone who both suffers from… Read More