Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics
10 best books like Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics (Miriam Engelberg): Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, Calling Dr. Laura, Positively Izzy, Stitches, How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story, The Story of My Tits, The Best Little Boy in the World, Mom's Cancer, Cancer Vixen, The Lives We Lost
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Author | Ellen Forney |
ISBN | 1592407323 |
Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers.
Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly...
Author | Nicole J. Georges |
ISBN | 0547615590 |
When Nicole Georges was two years old, her family told her that her father was dead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic told her he was alive. Her sister, saddled with guilt, admits that the psychic is right and that the whole family has conspired to keep him a secret. Sent into a tailspin about her identity,...
Author | Terri Libenson |
ISBN | 0062484966 |
Award-winning comics creator and author of the bestselling Invisible Emmie Terri Libenson returns with a companion graphic novel that captures the drama, angst, and humor of middle-school life. Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier, Jennifer Holm, and Victoria Jamieson.
Middle school...
Author | David Small |
ISBN | 0393068579 |
One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had cancer and was expected to die.
In...
Author | Tracy White |
ISBN | 1596434546 |
How do you know if you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown? For seventeen-year-old Stacy Black, it all begins with the smashing of a window. After putting her fist through the glass, she checks into a mental hospital. Stacy hates it there but despite herself slowly realizes she has to face the reasons...
Author | Jennifer Hayden |
ISBN | 1603090541 |
A landmark work of graphic memoir and a cancer narrative that pulls no punches.
When Jennifer Hayden was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 43, she realized that her tits told a story. Across a lifetime, they’d held so many meanings: hope and fear, pride and embarrassment, life and...
The Best Little Boy in the World
Author | Andrew Tobias |
ISBN | 0345381769 |
The classic account of growing up gay in America.
"The best little boy in the world never had wet dreams or masturbated; he always topped his class, honored mom and dad, deferred to elders and excelled in sports . . . . The best little boy in the world was . . . the model IBM exec . . . The best little boy in...
Author | Brian Fies |
ISBN | 0810958406 |
How does one deal when the only parent you have left is diagnosed with cancer? Brian Fies created a web comic to deal with the looming death of loved one.
This book is the complete collection of the strips from the orginal Eisner Award winning web comic. This is a physical copy of something that...
Author | Marisa Acocella Marchetto |
ISBN | 0307263576 |
What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds... a lump in her breast?
That/s the question that sets this powerful, funny, and poignant...
Author | Megan Crewe |
ISBN | 1423146174 |
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First, the virus took Kaelyn’s friends. Then, her family. Now it’s taken away her home.
But she can't look back—the life she once had is gone forever.
A deadly virus has destroyed Kaelyn’s small island community and spread beyond the quarantine....
Daddy's Girl is a powerful book that uses a childlike graphic style to explore the adolescence of a young girl, Lily, whose life is being destroyed by sexual abuse. Drechsler pulls no punches in her depiction of incest, and many scenes are hard to read, but this book shows that comics can be a vehicle for...
Author | Manuele Fior |
ISBN | 8876181717 |
It was hard not to take immediate notice of the utterly beautiful cover of this book. When I then proceeded to check out Manuele Fior's art style, I was completely blown away by his exuberantly-illustrated pages, his eye for color, and his passion quite visibly oozes from the book.
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Author | Molly Brooks |
ISBN | 1368008445 |
Sanity Jones and Tallulah Vega are best friends on Wilnick, the dilapidated space station they call home at the end of the galaxy. So naturally, when gifted scientist Sanity uses her lab skills and energy allowance to create a definitely-illegal-but-impossibly-cute three-headed kitten, she has...
Author | Bob Smith |
ISBN | 0380732009 |
As an openly gay comic, Bob Smith broke barriers with an appearance on "The Tonight Show." Now Smith offers up his own original, whine-free perspective on being grown up and gay.In OPENLY BOB, the acclaimed comedian candidly, and humorously, tackles issues facing grown-up gays as they make their place...
Author | Max de Radiguès |
ISBN | 1894994930 |
Wow! I’m usually skeptical when it comes to fiction on a topic like bullying, because it seems there’s nothing but obvious things to be said about it. This little gem by Belgian cartoonist Max de Radiguès, however, feels every bit as fresh and unpredictable as it feels sincere and essential. Its...
Author | Hazel Newlevant |
ISBN | 1549303058 |
When 17-year-old Hazel Newlevant takes a summer job clearing ivy from the forest in her home town of Portland, Oregon, her only expectation is to earn a little money. Homeschooled, affluent, and sheltered, Hazel soon finds her job working side by side with at-risk teens to be an initiation into a new...
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
Author | Eli Clare |
ISBN | 0822362872 |
In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort,...
Author | C.S. Pacat |
ISBN | 1684153344 |
Combines Issues #9-12.
Scrappy fencer Nicholas Cox comes to the end of his path to prove himself worthy of a father he never knew in the face of surly upperclassmen, nearly impossible odds, and the talent of his rival, sullen fencing prodigy, Seiji Katayama.
Sparks fly white-hot on...
Author | Nate Powell |
ISBN | 1603090339 |
Swallow Me Whole is a love story carried by rolling fog, terminal illness, hallucination, apophenia, insect armies, secrets held, unshakeable faith, and the search for a master pattern to make sense of one's unraveling. Two adolescent stepsiblings hold together amidst schizophrenia, obsessive...
Another spot-on story of middle school drama and friendship from Terri Libenson, national bestselling author of Invisible Emmie and Positively Izzy.
Friends. Frenemies. Middle school...
The last day of seventh grade has Jaime and Maya wondering who their real friends are.
Jaime...