“In recent years, the comic book genre has been applied to a wealth of graphic nonfiction for grownups, ranging from famous biographies to philosophy, but nowhere does the genre shine more exquisitely than in Freud — a magnificent biography-as-graphic-novel of the founding father of psychoanalysis by Swiss-born writer, economist, historian, and psychoanalyst Corinne Maier, illustrated by celebrated French cartoonist Anne Simon.”>full review (c) brainpickings.org 2014
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Freud’s Life & Legacy – in a Comic
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, biography, comics, graphic nonfiction, Psychoanalysis, review, Sigmund Freud, Vienna on 16 February 2014 by delclem“Heartless” Balkan comics
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Canada, comics, Nina Bunjevac, yugoslavia on 14 February 2012 by delclem
Nina Bunjevac “was born in Toronto, but raised in Yugoslavia, only to be back in Canada when she was sixteen, where she graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design. (…) Her chain-smoking, slightly alcoholic and manically depressed character Zorka may just be today’s ultimate antiheroine. A Balkan immigrant in the Brave New World, working in that same meat factory for the last twenty years, tormented by family constraints and her own secrete desires… we simply can’t get enough of her.” >article (c) Bturn, 2012 (reblogged) Continue reading
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