Tag Archive | "Darryl Cunningham"

Darryl Cunningham talks to Matt Badham

Thursday, March 11, 2010

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Matthew Badham talks to Darryl Cunningham about the upcoming Psychiatric Tales on CBR: “Matt: In terms of “Psychiatric Tales,” when and why did you decide to start making strips about mental illness? Darryl: I worked for many years as a health care assistant on an acute psychiatric ward. Throughout this time I kept a diary, in which [...]

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Darry Cunningham and Asia Alfasi on the radio today

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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Darryl Cunningham, late of this virtual parish, and Asia Alfasi are guests on BBC Radio Scotland’s Radio Cafe today; the show goes out just after the one o’clock news finishes, so normally around 1.10, 1.15pm and runs through to 2pm (one of the show’s producers tells me they will probably be on towards the latter [...]

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Daryl Cunningham’s Electroconvulsive Therapy

Sunday, February 28, 2010

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Darryl Cunningham’s new book Psychiatric Tales should be out from Blank Slate very soon. Following the finish of Psychiatric Tales, Darryl has been publishing material from his next book, a second volume of Psychiatric Tales, from which Darryl’s published the chapter on ECT on his blog – the first two pages of which are below [...]

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Radio Darryl

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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I’m delighted to hear that Darryl Cunningham is going to be a guest on BBC Scotland’s fine Radio Café, a show I’ve been fortunate enough to appear on a few times myself. With the print edition of the fascinating Psychiatric Tales drawing close Darryl will be on the show on Wednesday 3rd of March; the [...]

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Darryl Cunnigham’s Tony Blair

Monday, February 1, 2010

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Darryl Cunningham does his take on Tony ‘I have no regrets’ Blair; I will just direct you to go look because if I comment on it and the man’s appearance at the Iraq War enquiry then I’ll not only be on my High Horse, I’ll be at full gallop, so go look at Darryl’s work [...]

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Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus….

Saturday, December 12, 2009

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You can always tell it’s coming up for Christmas when we start seeing lots and lots of lovely comic Christmas cards… and so it begins: Courtesy Darryl Cunningham, whose Psychiatric Tales is much anticipated from Blank Slate in early 2010. More to come as we get closer.

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Psychiatric Tales ends on a personal note

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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If you’ve been following our former cartoonist-in-residence Darryl Cunnigham’s Psychiatric Tales as he’s been posting pages on LiveJournal then you will already know that they have been utterly compelling, drawing on his time in psychiatric health care to deal with mental health issues in a very sensitive, sympathetic manner. Now as he posts up the [...]

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Suicide

Monday, October 5, 2009

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Darryl Cunningham continues to post previews of his absorbing Psychiatric Tales series, which will be published next year by Blank Slate. He’s now reached the penultimate chapter of the series, which draws on his own experiences working in the field of mental health care; the subject of this chapter: the destruction of the self with [...]

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Psychiatric Tales

Thursday, September 10, 2009

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Our former cartoonist-in-virtual-residence Darryl Cunningham has posted up a look at more pages from his increasingly fascinating series Psychiatric Tales, drawing on his time working in a psychiatric ward to give a much more reasoned and sympathetic look into the many mental health problems that could and often do beset almost anyone at some point; [...]

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Self harming

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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Darryl Cunningham’s posted up more extremely interesting work, drawing (no pun intended) again on his previous experiences working on a psychiatric ward, this time looking at self harming (via Tom at Comics Reporter who spotted it first)

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The mean streets of San Diablo

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Regular readers will know that the Act-i-vate webcomics collective is one of my favourites, home to some excellent creators and its worth reminding anyone who hasn’t had a look recently that there’s an added reason to go and check it out, our own former cartoonist in residence Darryl Cunnigham’s sequel to his Super-Sam and John [...]

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