Tag Archives: Ellen Forney

Graphic Medicine and the Critique of Contemporary U.S. Healthcare

Venkatesan, S. & Murali, C. J Med Humanit (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-019-09571-z https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10912-019-09571-z ABSTRACT: Comics has always had a critical engagement with socio-political and cultural issues and hence evolved into a medium with a subversive power to challenge the status quo. Staying true to the criticality of the medium, graphic medicine (where comics intersects with the discourse… Read More »

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 »

Graphic Illness Memoirs as Counter-discourse

Sathyaraj Venkatesan & Sweetha Saji (2019) Graphic illness memoirs as counter-discourse, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2019.1641531 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2019.1641531 ABSTRACT: Medical and popular discourses often perpetuate stereotypes of the mentally ill that essentialize them as imbecile and violent, which in turn trivializes their voices and perspectives. Because of this, stereotyped representations of mental illness mediated through films, fiction, or… 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 »