Tag Archives: mental illness

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 »

“Graphic Medicine” as a Mental Health Information Resource: Insights from Comics Producers

Farthing, A., & Priego, E. (2016). ‘Graphic Medicine’ as a mental health information resource: insights fromcomics producers. The Comics Grid 6(1). Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/cg.74 ABSTRACT: Recent literature suggests that a growing number of comics are being published on health-related topics, including aspects of mental health and social care (Williams 2012; Czerwiec et al 2015) and… Read More »