Tag Archive | "Darryl Cunningham"

“The Eagle has landed”

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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Darryl Cunningham‘s on a roll this week – his powerful and moving Psychiatric Tales got the Observer Graphic Novel of the Month at the weekend and, in what must have been quite a flurry of activity, he finished his new comics project exploring the many conspiracy theories that surround the Apollo lunar missions. Darryl picks [...]

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Homeopathy

Monday, June 28, 2010

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Darryl Cunningham‘s posted up the 19-page strip on homeopathy that he’s been teasing us with glimpses and mentions of for the last few weeks, go look. (scenes from Homeopathy by and (c) Darryl Cunningham; if you are suffering comics withdrawal take two of these then call him in the morning)

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Graphic Medicine

Monday, June 21, 2010

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Darryl Cunningham reports from the recent Graphic Medicine conference which he was involved in at the University of London, which saw academics, health care professionals and people from the comics biz discussing both the portrayal of health issues in the medium and the use of pictures and art as a way to bridge the patient-health [...]

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“Because These Are The Things That Will Save You” – Psychiatric Tales

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

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Psychiatric Tales by Darryl Cunningham Blank Slate Books Joe reviewed Psychiatric Tales a couple of weeks ago (Joe’s review), but I wanted to add my own views on the book. Because I’m one of the many who’ve had their lives affected. My family seems to have a history of mental illness in one form or [...]

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The Facts In The Case Of Dr Andrew Wakefield

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

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Even as  reviews are coming in for his fascinating Psychiatric Tales (see our review here, yesterday), Darryl Cunningham isn’t resting on his laurels – he’s posted up a new, fifteen page colour strip on Dr Andrew Wakefield, the doctor behind the health scare which erroneously linked the MMR immunisation jab for children with increased risk [...]

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Psychiatric Tales – Darryl Cunningham on the couch with Matthew Badham

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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Matthew Badham talked to Darryl Cunningham just before the publication of Psychiatric Tales in the UK (from Blank Slate; a US edition is due next year by Bloomsbury) for CBR. He’s just re-posted it on his own blog and with Psychiatric Tales now on our shelves (come in and have a look, it’s highly recommended [...]

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Emotional tales. Human tales. Psychiatric Tales

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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Psychiatric Tales By Darryl Cunningham Published Blank Slate Books The brain. It’s the single, most complicated creation we know of in the entire universe. And that’s before we even consider the mind (because they’re not always the same thing). Somewhere in that gray mass that looks like it was sculpted from leftover, used chewing gum, [...]

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Of Psychiatric Tales, MMR and Uncle Bob – Darryl Cunnigham is very busy right now….

Sunday, May 9, 2010

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There’s a lovely white copy of Darryl Cunningham‘s Psychiatric Tales on my book shelf waiting to be read over the weekend, with a review to come after that, but I’ve already seen quite a lot of it online and in preview so I can confidently say it looks superb. But even though he’s just seen [...]

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Comics cake!

Monday, April 19, 2010

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I can’t resist pinching this photo from Sarah McIntyre’s blog about the party at the now infamous Fleece Station studio, which is set to become even more infamous with Lauren O’Farrell, Ellen Lindner and Gertrude Woolsworthy moving in. They were celebrating their new studio-mates and also the birthday of Darryl Cunningham, which explains the very [...]

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane….. it’s Darryl Cunningham

Friday, April 16, 2010

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Whilst waiting for the imminent publication of Psychiatric Tales from Blank Slate, Darryl Cunningham has been filling his time productively….. with some lovely blog pics of both the Man Of Steel and the Dark Knight…..

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George Bernard Shaw zingers

Thursday, April 1, 2010

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He may have been working away on a very serious, heavyweight topic for Psychiatric Tales recently but it’s good to see Darryl Cunningham still keeps his gag strip hand in, offering us up the great George Bernard Shaw  punning shamelessly: (strip is by and (c) Darryl Cunningham, with some assistance by GBS)

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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, [...]

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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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