A perceptive and thoughtful article
from Mike Dunham appeared in the Alaska News Dispatch on "My
Degeneration" putting it into the larger context of the Graphic Medicine
genre. The article yielded the following "... the book presents much of the trauma in
the garb of absurd humor. Dunlap-Shohl devotes several panels to
recounting how nervous or insensitive doctors broke bad news to
patients. Some of their manners were so crude that they seem drawn from
the sad, wicked comedy of Vonnegut or Balzac." To which I can only say "Thank you".
(Worries
to self about raising expectations sky-high, then remembers, Mike
likely the only living person in Western Hemisphere to have read any
Balzac.)
2 comments:
I read Balzac's "Eugénie Grandet" in college and loved it. Also read probably everything by Vonnegut. Favorite: "Slaughterhouse Five," which I've read so many times my copy of the paperback fell apart and died. So it goes....
I liked many of the literary references in your book. Combined with the high drama of your experiences with Parkinson's, and the relentless way you and PD keep duking it out, "My Degeneration" packs a powerful Parkinsonian punch.
I tried to season the text with little literary references here and there. There are a few Easter eggs there for the alert reader. Plus a picture of John Goodman as Walter Sobchak.
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