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Psychiatric Tales II – a glimpse

Monday, May 9, 2011

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Darryl Cunningham posts up a glimpse into the sequel to the powerful and moving Psychiatric Tales which he is working on, with this page via his Flickr stream. I am seriously looking forward to reading this book when it is ready and I expect a lot of you are too. (murderer’s eyes from Psychiatric Tales [...]

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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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A Psychiatric Tale of two covers…

Thursday, August 26, 2010

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Over on his blog, Darryl Cunningham has recently unveiled the US cover to his wonderful Psychiatric Tales book. Completely different to the stark white of the Blank Slate UK version. Bloomsbury US have gone for an equally stark black look: Hmmm. Which is better? I think I prefer the stark white of the UK version, [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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