Disability Comics

An evocative and heartfelt graphic memoir about the challenges of living with a progressive disability. --from Amazon.

"I created Fox Foxerson, a gender neutral protagonist faced with the onset of an unfamiliar mental illness. Fox battles symptoms and tries to stay employed. Fox navigates the health care system labyrinth and attempts to maintain friendships, even as defining "reality" becomes a challenge. In the realm of fiction, Fox can tell my adventures while I stay free to have fun with my characters: Sock Puppet Doctor, Jellyfish Boss-lady, Goth Fairy, monsters...

"Jason Adam Katzenstein is just trying to live his life, but he keeps getting sidetracked by his over-active, anxious brain. Mundane events like shaking hands or sharing a drink snowball into absolute catastrophes. Jason has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, a mental illness that compels him to perform rituals in order to protect himself from dangers that don't really exist. He checks, washes, over-thinks, rinse, repeat. He does his best to hide his...

"After years of asking herself, "Why, o why?", Lou discovers that she has cyclothymia: a mood disorder from the bipolar family. So, what do you do when you discover a little wild fox in your brain? Can it be tamed, subdued? And how to be happy when you have to coexist with such an unpredictable creature? Welcome to Lou's world: her doubts, her joys, her challenges, her sense of humor and... a lovingly annoying fox!"-- Publisher's description.

"Adventures in Dealing with Everyday Struggles, Getting Help, and Doing Just OK Sometimes. Just Peachy is a comic series that explores what the day-to-day is like with depression and/or anxiety. The all-too-real cartoon protagonist gives readers a character to empathize with, and helps explain some of the not often talked about consequences and symptoms of having depression. The comics also explore the themes of heartbreak, finding love, dealing with...

College student Isaac struggles to manage his epilepsy and his day-to-day life. His medication does not seem to work, the doctors won't listen, the schoolwork keeps piling up, his family is in denial about his condition, and his social life falls apart as he feels isolated by his illness. Even with an unexpected new friend by his side, so much is up against him that Isaac is starting to think his epilepsy might be unbeatable.

The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman's exploration of her sexuality, mental well-being, and growing up in our modern age. Told using expressive artwork that invokes both laughter and tears, this moving and highly entertaining single volume depicts not only the artist's burgeoning sexuality, but many other personal aspects...

"Marietta and Chuck, madly in love, are expecting a baby. But childbirth marks the end of the fairy tale. Zoe's birth didn't go as Marietta imagined, and the maternal instinct is slow to manifest itself. While she no longer recognizes her body, Marietta feels herself losing her footing in the face of this vulnerable baby for whom she is now responsible. Will she manage to feel like a mother? To love her baby? To stop thinking that a proxy mom would...

The true story of a spirited young woman whose brilliant mind is caught in the grip of mental illness, known as bipolar disorder. In constant flux between transient euphoria and utter despair, Camille attempts to decode her mind and treat her illness. However, she discovers that the will of the patient is not always enough to cure the ills of the mind, and the only way she can find a semblance of peace is when surrounded and supported...if not understood....

"A portrayal in graphic novel format of the author's battle with auditory hallucinations, depicted as a monster, and his journey to understand and cope with his illness"-- Provided by publisher.