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Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Suffering from (but enjoying) extreme mania, and terrified that medication would cause her to lose creativity, she began a long struggle over many years to find mental stability while retaining her creativity. Searching to make sense of the popular idea of the 'crazy artist', she finds inspiration from the lives and work of other artists and writers who suffered from mood disorders, including Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O'Keeffe, William Styron, and Sylvia Plath. She also researches the clinical aspects of bipolar disorder, including the strengths and limitations of various treatments and medications, and what studies tell us about the conundrum of attempting to "cure" an otherwise brilliant mind. Darkly funny and intensely personal, Forney's memoir provides a humorous but authentic glimpse into the effects of a mood disorder on an artist's work, as she shares her own story through black-and-white graphic images and prose.

For storytellers and artists of all levels (no experience necessary!), here is a colorful, interactive how-to book that teaches kids to express themselves through comics.Hey! Are you an artist? Writer? Creator? All of the above? None of the above? Grab a pencil and this book to begin expressing your life in comics! This interactive guide is chockfull of fun exercises, insightful lessons, and plenty of practice space. Draw and write your own characters! Create funky panel shapes! Fill in the speech bubbles! Follow fun prompts to doodle, draw, and design! No writing or drawing experience is necessary-all it takes is YOU (plus a pencil or pen) to turn your ideas into visual stories, starring you!Praise for comic artist, speaker, mental health coach, and New York Times bestselling author Ellen Forney:- "Ellen Forney's greatest strength as a cartoonist is her gift for explanation-getting information across with vigor, wit, and visual inventiveness." -New York Times- "Forney has a virtuosic understanding of what words and images can do in congress, playing them off one another in ways that allow her pages to be more than the sum of their parts." -NPR- "Brilliant" -Entertainment Weekly

In her last book, outspoken urban mom Ariel Gore offered help for real-world mothers. In The Mother Trip, she gives her inspiration, encouragement, and moral support to unconventional moms. In these essays, she bashes the stereotype of the "good mother" and encourages readers to follow their instincts and redefine motherhood in their own terms.

Sometimes, the simplest stories are the best... This is a lovely, tender book... Stan and Nan are all of our grandparents, their stability and infinite kindness much mourned as our ever-changing worlds spin frantically on.'Rachel Cooke, ObserverMy nan wrote me many letters back in 2011. They were about the love of her life, my grandad, Stanley Burndred. I’ve never met him, he died long before I was born, but his drawings, paintings and ceramics have been in my life for as long as I can remember. Every wall of Nan’s house would be decorated by his artworks and every windowsill bore his ceramic creations. Whenever we visited Nan in the Black Country I would study the ornaments and pictures, wondering who had made them. It wasn’t until I wrote to Nan many years later, receiving in return beautiful handwritten letters detailing his life, that it became apparent that the work was his. The letters were so beautiful I felt my nan’s story had to be told. Stan and Nan is the story of an ordinary couple and the people who loved them. The narrative follows their lives from Stan’s working-class background, to his premature death, through to Nan’s struggle to cope, and the perils of ageing. It is a memoir about the importance of family, and about death, love, living and human connection.

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative.Assembling Crip Archives offers the first sustained study of how autobiographical graphic narratives of disability and illness function as archives of embodied knowledge. Bringing together disability studies, crip theory, and comics theory, Coral Anaid Díaz Cano examines how cartoonists use the formal affordances of comics to document, contest, and reimagine lived experiences of illness, impairment, and care.Through close readings of Tangles, Stitches, Marbles, and Dancing After TEN, the book shows how graphic memoirs assemble alternative records that challenge the authority of medical and scientific narratives. These works do not simply depict illness or disability; they produce generative acts of recordkeeping, preserving affective traces, relational encounters, and bodily knowledge that resist biomedical objectivity. Díaz Cano argues that comics’ interplay of word, image, repetition, and absence enables the creation of ‘crip archives’ that foreground vulnerability, dependency, collaboration, and non-normative temporalities.Attentive to questions of race, gender, care, and authorship, Assembling Crip Archives situates graphic life writing within broader debates about visibility, access, and epistemic authority. The book makes a major contribution to comics studies and disability humanities, demonstrating how drawn self-representation becomes a powerful method for thinking about embodiment, memory, and the politics of knowledge.

A special edition of the tragicomic smash hit which stormed the New York Times bestseller charts, with an introduction from Markus Zusak.Junior is a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heartbreaking, funny and beautifully written tale, featuring poignant drawings that reflect Junior's art, is based on the author's own experiences. It chronicles contemporary adolescence as seen through the eyes of one Native American boy.'Excellent in every way' Neil GaimanIllustrated in a contemporary cartoon style by Ellen Forney.