Graphic Medicine

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Jacques Mathis tells his own story-of a megalomaniacal man stuck in a body too small for his ideas. His childhood, spent in a dreary little town in Lorraine, came to a brutal end at the age of fourteen after he suffered his first episode of psychosis. Since that day, between repeated visits to psychiatric wards, Mathis had to find some way to carve out as much of a normal life as possible. With PSYCHOTIC, Jacques Mathis gives us a candid, inspirational...

62) Queer: a graphic history

Author

Barker, Meg-John

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"Activist-academic Meg John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views...

63) The Nao of Brown

Author

Dillon, Glyn

64) The Nib

65) No one else

Author

Johnson, R. Kikuo

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eComic, Graphic Novel

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After his grandfather dies and his single mother becomes busy with applying to medical school, Brandon becomes obsessed with Batman and with finding his missing cat, as his Uncle Robbie returns home and tries to help the family overcome their grief.

66) Our cancer year

Author

Brabner, Joyce

67) Our little secret: a graphic memoir

Author

Carrington, Emily

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"Emily Carrington's memoir of the legacy of the violence a family friend who sexually abused her in her youth wreaks on her life, and the power of telling your own story, your way."--

68) Marbles: mania, depression, Michelangelo, and me : a graphic memoir

Author

Forney, Ellen

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Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Ellen Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic but terrified that medications would cause her to lose her creativity and livelihood, she began a years-long struggle to find mental stability without losing herself or her passion. Searching to make sense of the popular concept of the "crazy artist," Ellen found inspiration from the lives and work of other artist and writers who suffered from...

69) menopause a comic treatment

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70) Mom's cancer

Author

Fies, Brian

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eComic, Graphic Novel

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Each year, approximately 1.5 million people in the United States and Canada are diagnosed with cancer. This is one family's story. An honest, unflinching, and sometimes humorous look at the practical and emotional effect that serious illness can have on patients and their families, Mom's Cancer is a story of hope-uniquely told in words and illustrations. Brian Fies is a freelance journalist whose mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. As he and...

71) My degeneration: a journey through Parkinson's

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Dunlap-Shohl, Peter

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"A narrative of the author's battle with Parkinson's disease. Traces the author's journey through depression, the disease symptoms, the medication and its side effects, the author's interactions with family, and the mental and physical changes caused by the disease"--Provided by publisher.

72) My friend Dahmer: a graphic novel

Author

Backderf, Derf

Formats:

eComic, Graphic Novel

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We all have that one friend from school -- the strange kids, the class freak, the guy whose antics amused, entertained, and maybe even alarmed us. The one who sticks in our heads even with the passing of the years. That classmate is invariably left behind when we graduate, vanishing into memory, filed away with our old yearbooks and other teenage mementoes. But every now and then we wonder, whatever happened to that friend? For one man who grew up...

73) The infinite wait and other stories

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Wertz, Julia

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With acerbic wit and ribald humor the cartoonist describes jobs she has had, her illness and discovery of comics, and her home-town library.

74) Just peachy: comics about depression, anxiety, love, and finding the humor in being sad

Author

Chisholm, Holly

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Book, eBook

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"Adventures in Dealing with Everyday Struggles, Getting Help, and Doing Just OK Sometimes. Just Peachy is a comic series that explores what the day-to-day is like with depression and/or anxiety. The all-too-real cartoon protagonist gives readers a character to empathize with, and helps explain some of the not often talked about consequences and symptoms of having depression. The comics also explore the themes of heartbreak, finding love, dealing with...

75) Kid gloves: nine months of careful chaos

Author

Knisley, Lucy

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"If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you're smart and talented and "good enough," you can do anything. Except get pregnant. Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she'd ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy plagued by health issues, up to a dramatic, near-death experience...

76) Killing and dying

Author

Tomine, Adrian

77) The lady doctor

Author

Williams, Ian

78) Level up

Author

Yang, Gene Luen

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Dennis, the son of Chinese immigrants, yearns to play video games like his friends and, upon his strict father's death, becomes obsessed with them but later, realizing how his father sacrificed for him, he chooses a nobler path.

79) Lighter than my shadow

Author

Green, Katie

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eComic, Graphic Novel

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A graphic memoir of eating disorders, abuse and recovery. Lighter Than My Shadow is a hand-drawn story of struggle and recovery, a trip into the black heart of a taboo illness; an exposure of those who are so weak as to prey on the weak, and an inspiration to anybody who believes in the human power to endure towards happiness.

80) Hyperbole and a half: unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened

Author

Brosh, Allie

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Topics: Anxiety & Depression

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Collects autobiographical, illustrated essays and cartoons from the author's popular blog and related new material that humorously and candidly deals with her own idiosyncrasies and battles with depression.