"A heartfelt and funny graphic novel memoir by one of the first Black female cartoonists to be published in the New Yorker, at the age of 22"--

"In late 2004, Vivian Chong's life was changed forever when a rare skin disease, TEN (Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis), left her with scar tissue that would eventually blind her. As she was losing her sight, she put down as many drawings on paper as she could to document the experience. In Dancing After TEN, Chong teams up with cartoonist Georgia Webber -- whose graphic autobiography, Dumb, chronicled her own disability -- to trace her journey out of the...

Interview with Amy Kurzweil who discusses her graphic memoir "Flying Couch" and how her family's Holocaust history informs her life and work as an artist. "Flying Couch" illustrates three generations of Jewish women: Amy, the artist, Sonya, the psychologist, and Lily, (Amy's Bubbe or Grandmother) the Holocaust survivor. Amy discusses how writing and drawing this graphic memoir helped her more deeply understand both her mother's post-WWII and her Bubbe's...

"In May 2013 Zara Slattery's persistent sore throat turned into a deadly bacterial infection, after the paracetamol and ice pack prescribed by her GP failed to work. The world of Zara's 15-day drug-induced coma, which she describes as 'being trapped in a nightmare state that you can't wake up from' is rendered as a full-colour fantasy, with mythological creatures appearing out of nowhere as she battles to protect her three children against the forces...