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Walking wounded : uncut stories from Iraq
A gripping graphic novel illustrates the challenges of Iraq War veterans as well as their inspiring triumphs. After the shock of 9/11, for hundreds of thousands of young Americans there was Ar Ramadi, Baghdad, Abu Ghraib--the war in Iraq. Then came the trauma. From the torment of these vets to their reflections, this book demonstrates the seemingly impossible return of those who aspire to get back to a normal life. The effort is huge: some can't make it and others score their own victory by finally turning the corner. Walking Wounded is a parable for our country's war sickness.
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Show Me Where It Hurts
In Show Me Where It Hurts , Monica Chiu argues that
graphic pathography-long-form comics by and about subjects who
suffer from disease or are impaired-re-vitalizes and re-visions
various negatively affected corporeal states through hand-drawn
images. By the body and for the body, the medium is subversive and
reparative, and it stands in contradistinction to clinical accounts
of illness that tend to disembody or objectify the subject.
Employing affect theory, spatial theory, vital materialism, and
approaches from race and ethnic studies, women and gender studies,
disability studies, and comics studies, Chiu provides readings of
recently published graphic pathography. Chiu argues that these
kinds of subjective graphic stories, by virtue of their narrative
and descriptive strengths, provide a form of resistance to the
authoritative voice of biomedicine and serve as a tool to foster
important change in the face of social and economic inequities when
it comes to questions of health and healthcare. Show Me Where
It Hurts reads what already has been manifested on the comics
page and invites more of what demands expression.
Pathbreaking and provocative, this book will appeal to scholars
and students of the medical humanities, comics studies, race and
ethnic studies, disability studies, and women and gender
studies.
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Here I am, I am me : an illustrated guide to mental health
\"Join author-illustrator Cara Bean as she takes readers on an illustrated journey to the center of the brain. Each chapter explores a different aspect of mental health, from the brain and the mind, to feelings and emotions. By portraying complex neuroscience concepts with a cast of illustrated brain part characters, the book explains what is really going on in the reader's head in an accessible, approachable way that ultimately serves to empower the reader\"-- Provided by publisher.
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In limbo
Ever since Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee emigrated from South Korea to the United States, she's felt her otherness. For a while, her English wasn't perfect. Her teachers can't pronounce her Korean name. Her face and her eyes--especially her eyes--feel wrong. In high school, everything gets harder. Friendships change and end, she falls behind in classes, and fights with her mom escalate. Caught in limbo, with nowhere safe to go, Deb finds her mental health plummeting, resulting in a suicide attempt. But Deb is resilient and slowly heals with the help of art and self-care, guiding her to a deeper understanding of her heritage and herself.
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My Degeneration
How does one deal with a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease at the
age of forty-three? My Degeneration , by former
Anchorage Daily News staff cartoonist Peter Dunlap-Shohl,
answers the question with humor and passion, recounting the
author's attempt to come to grips with the \"malicious whimsy\" of
this chronic, progressive, and disabling disease. This graphic
novel tracks Dunlap-Shohl's journey through depression, the
worsening symptoms of the disease, the juggling of medications and
their side effects, the impact on relations with family and
community, and the raft of mental and physical changes wrought by
the malady.
My Degeneration examines the current state of
Parkinson's care, including doctor/patient relations and the
repercussions of a disease that, among other things, impairs
movement, can rob patients of their ability to speak or write,
degrades sufferers' ability to deal with complexity, and interferes
with the sense of balance. Readers learn what it's like to undergo
a dramatic, demanding, and audacious bit of high-tech brain surgery
that can mysteriously restore much of a patient's control over
symptoms. But My Degeneration is more than a Parkinson's
memoir. Dunlap-Shohl gives the person newly diagnosed with
Parkinson's disease the information necessary to cope with it on a
day-to-day basis. He chronicles the changes that life with the
disease can bring to the way one sees the world and the way one is
seen by the wider community. Dunlap-Shohl imparts a realistic basis
for hope-hope not only to carry on, but to enjoy a decent quality
of life.
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An Info Pro's Guide to Graphic Medicine
The PathoGraphics website states, \"Illness and disability are very personal matters: they are located in individual bodies, connected to specific life stories, and may even be difficult to communicate, as in the cases of pain or grief.\" As one way to help tell those stories, a genre of medical/health-related graphic literature known as graphic medicine is emerging to educate, communicate, and document the discourse of healthcare through the medium of comics.
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MASS APPEAL: Comics continue redefining boundaries, tackling complex social issues, and educating readers, even as they entertain
According to a recent joint report by ICv2's Milton Griepp and Comichron's John Jackson Miller, comics and graphic novel sales in the United States and Canada reached an astounding $1.095 billion in 2018, an $80 million increase from 2017. Superheroes & Antiheroes Long gone are the days of straightforward clashes between good and evil in comics. Since the 1986 releases of Alan Moore's Watchmen and Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, readers have flocked to morally ambiguous, flawed characters. According to Microcosm publicity director and assistant editor Cynthia Marts, \"The rising trend we've seen in quite a few of our genres, including [Reid Chancellor's] Hardcore Anxiety: A Graphic Guide to Punk Rock and Mental Health (Oct.), has been honest personal accounts and advice about mental health and modern self care…. According to Mark Gabriel de Vera, VIZ senior publishing sales manager, \"Serialized manga is without a doubt the bread and butter of the manga industry….
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