Tag Archive | "mental health"

Don Depresso meets the Happiness Fairy

Friday, May 25, 2012

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It’s been a little while since I checked out the most recent postings on Better, Drawn, the site that showcases comics works addressing mental and physical health issues. Simon Moreton flagged up one strip, Don Depresso by Asidewalk, on Twitter recently and I had to have a look, followed by a visit to Asidewalk’s own [...]

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Drawn from Distress to Recovery – A Call for ‘Graphic Memoirs’

Friday, April 20, 2012

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In recent years we’ve seen an increasing number of comics being used as a way of understanding medical and health problems, as well as being a (sometimes therapeutic) way for people who have been through a major health scare or who have had to battle through the sadly so often misunderstood mental health issues that [...]

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Better, Drawn

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

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Selina Lock points us in the direction of this new Tumblr blog Better, Drawn, which brings together comics work where the creators discuss living with medical issues, be they a physical or mental illness. From the description: “Better, drawn is a new place for people to share stories about long-term and chronic mental and physical [...]

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You can be a character in a Peter F Hamilton novel

Friday, November 5, 2010

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Bestselling science fiction author and all-round good egg Peter F Hamilton tells me that, along with a whole slew of writers, he is offering readers the chance to bid on Ebay to have a character named after them in his next novel, with the funds raised going to Autistica, which campaigns to invest more into [...]

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Depresso – brilliant tales of everyday madness.

Friday, October 29, 2010

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Depresso (or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Embrace Being Bonkers!) by Brick Knockabout Tom Freeman is not a well man, not a well man at all. What starts as a dull ache in the balls soon turns into something far, far more painful. And author Brick delights in showing us just how painful [...]

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Frames of Mind

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

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Among the slate of cool events coming up as part of Comica, I notice that there’s one which promises to be fascinating, with Brick and Darryl Cunningham discussing Depresso and Psychiatric Tales. I imagine this will be a superb event, with both artists drawing on personal experience and discussing a form of comics which is [...]

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Dodging life’s brickbats

Friday, October 1, 2010

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For our latest “director’s commentary” I’m lucky enough to be able to present Brick discussing his upcoming graphic novel and talking us through some of his pages. I was intrigued right away when I first heard that Knockabout Comics would be publishing Depresso this winter (I think it is going to be a book to [...]

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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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Mental Health Comics in Spain

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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Marko at Neorama points us towards a new collection, Comics: Fundacio CPB de Salud Mental, a collection of 141 comics made by users of the mental health services in Catalonia: “This innovative book is the result of an idea of the prestigious American graphic designer Sanchez, who for years collaborated with the Mental Health Foundation [...]

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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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