That said, the mere fact that such a fundamental issue as mental health can be addressed in a comedic, yet profoundly engaging way, is in itself, somewhat inventive. Such Americanization – such as the spelling of this previous word with a ‘z’ – isn’t necessarily be a bad thing it just takes a little bit of getting used to for one who (has not only worked in Mental Health) but reads with a vision that is fundamentally European if not British/English. A glimpse of the dazzling network of connections that bind the universe. It felt like an intense cross-cultural moment, perfect & profound. ”Dedicated with immense gratitude” to her ”mother and psychiatrist,” these nine chapters, are, it has to be said, very American in both tonal quality and outlook: ”I gave one of my drawings to a non-English speaking local in a second-hand shop (we were simultaneously eying the same handmade skirt & she let me have it). Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would impair her creativity. Lifelong cartoonist – who collaborated on the National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian and created the Eisener Award-nominated comic books I Love Led Zeppelin and Monkey Food: The Complete ‘I Was Seven in ’75’ Collection – has herein compiled a brutally honest cross between a memoir and an altogether incisive study of mental illness.Īs written in the New York Times Book Review: ”Forney’s greatest strength as a cartoonist is her gift for explanation – getting information across with vigour, wit and visual inventiveness.” MARBLES MANIA DEPRESSION MICHELANGELO & ME GRAPHIC MEMOIR (C. Marbles – Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Meticks all these boxes and (perhaps) a whole lot more besides. Ellen Forney has a wonderful sense of humor about the various afflictions and difficulties that she chronicles in her candid and affectingly raw graphic memoir Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me.

Of being informative, whilst at the same time, quasi-comedic and entertaining. It’s not often one stumbles upon a book about mental illness that is capable Marbles – Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me

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