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Cancer Gets Complicated: PW Talks with Kimiko Tobimatsu

Wurth, E. T. (2020). Cancer gets complicated: PW talks with Kimiko Tobimatsu. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved from https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/84424-cancer-gets-complicated-pw-talks-with-kimiko-tobimatsu.html ABSTRACT: In Tobimatsu’s graphic memoir, Kimiko Does Cancer (Arsenal Pulp, Nov.), the young, queer Asian-Canadian lawyer navigates a breast cancer diagnosis and the “cancer warrior” support group culture.

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 »