Penn State Catalog lists "My Degeneration." Also BLURBS!

It appears that the people at Penn State Press are convinced that "My Degeneration" will be published in October. They say so right in their catalog, which also has a short description of the book and five of the finest blurbs ever written. The catalog offers a few different ways to pre-order the book, which you will be desperate to do after reading the blurbs, but the only thing I could get to work was the one that enables an email notification when the book is available. Watch this space for further exciting developments as they break!

It would be a disservice to the fine writers who agreed to read a draft of the book and then had nice things to say about it to not repeat their remarks as often as I get the chance. They appear below, for your interest and with my thanks.

“Peter Dunlap-Shohl once again brings his unique art to the table to help educate, illustrate, and demonstrate life, hope, and strength on his journey with Parkinson’s. Creative and insightful, this book reflects all of Pete’s greatest qualities, including his constant work to help and educate all those in the PD community, patients and care partners alike.” —Bill Bell, co-founder of the Northwest Parkinson’s Foundation

“Peter Dunlap-Shohl is a comic genius and a masterful artist. The fact that he came down with early-onset Parkinson’s Disease gave him the unlucky opportunity to chronicle this dogged and humorless disease. His wit and artistry, his truth telling in the face of struggle, I know, makes the struggle easier for his readers to bear. Peter is a Rock Star Artist and Humorist. Every disease like Parkinson’s should have someone like Peter Dunlap-Shohl, until there are no more diseases like Parkinson’s left.” —John Straley, author of Cold Storage, Alaska

“I could have recommended Peter Dunlap-Shohl’s book because it brings attention to a great purpose. Or because it is brave and honest work. Or even simply to acknowledge an achievement of this magnitude created under physical, psychological, and emotional circumstances that most of us will never understand.

"But I'm not endorsing Peter’s graphic novel for any of those reasons. I'm doing so because this is a damn fine work of art, by a damn fine artist.” —Nick Galifianakis, Washington Post cartoonist

“The world made fresh by a Parkinson’s patient with a wonderfully sensitive and cocked eye. He tells the tale of his fast-changing reality with compassion and wicked humor, leaping from one crazily inventive work of art to the next. Never more acute than when examining his own mind-set, Peter Dunlap-Shohl leads us from diagnosis and despair to the high ground where he could compose this lucid, moving book. A miracle, in a way—and a triumph.” —Tom Kizzia, author of Pilgrim’s Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier