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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir

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Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” on this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers.

 

Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney used to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would cause her to lose creativity, she started a years-long struggle to find mental stability even as retaining her passions and creativity.

Searching to make sense of the preferred concept of the crazy artist, she finds inspiration from the lives and work of other artists and writers who suffered from mood disorders, including Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O’Keeffe, William Styron, and Sylvia Plath. She also researches the clinical aspects of bipolar disorder, including the strengths and limitations of more than a few treatments and medications, and what studies let us know in regards to the conundrum of making an attempt to “cure” an another way brilliant mind.

Darkly funny and intensely personal, Forney’s memoir provides a visceral glimpse into the effects of a mood disorder on an artist’s work, as she shares her own story through bold black-and-white images and evocative prose.

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