Tag Archives: Allie Brosh

Drawing the Mind: Aesthetics of Representing Mental Illness in Select Graphic Memoirs

Sathyaraj, V., & Saji, S. (2019). Drawing the mind: Aesthetics of representing mental illness in select graphic memoirs, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459319846930 ABSTRACT: Representation of psychological experiences necessitates a creative use of means of expression. In the field of graphic medicine, autobiographical narratives… Read More »

Comics, Corn, and the Queer Phenomenology of Depression

McDonald, R. A. (2019). Comics, Corn, and the Queer Phenomenology of Depression. Literature and Medicine 37(1), 96-112. Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved August 9, 2019, from Project MUSE database. http://muse.jhu.edu/article/730825 ABSTRACT: Grounded in analyses of two graphic memoirs, Ellen Forney’s Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me and Allie Brosh’s “Depression (Parts One & Two),” this article draws from Sara… Read More »