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| Title | : | Epileptic (L'Ascension du Haut Mal #1-6 omnibus) |
| Author | : | David B. |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | July 4th 2005 by Pantheon (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction |
David B.
Paperback | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 3.88 | 12711 Users | 637 Reviews
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Hailed by The Comics Journal as one of Europe’s most important and innovative comics artists, David B. has created a masterpiece in Epileptic, his stunning and emotionally resonant autobiography about growing up with an epileptic brother. Epileptic gathers together and makes available in English for the first time all six volumes of the internationally acclaimed graphic work.David B. was born Pierre-François Beauchard in a small town near Orléans, France. He spent an idyllic early childhood playing with the neighborhood kids and, along with his older brother, Jean-Christophe, ganging up on his little sister, Florence. But their lives changed abruptly when Jean-Christophe was struck with epilepsy at age eleven. In search of a cure, their parents dragged the family to acupuncturists and magnetic therapists, to mediums and macrobiotic communes. But every new cure ended in disappointment as Jean-Christophe, after brief periods of remission, would only get worse.
Angry at his brother for abandoning him and at all the quacks who offered them false hope, Pierre-François learned to cope by drawing fantastically elaborate battle scenes, creating images that provide a fascinating window into his interior life. An honest and horrifying portrait of the disease and of the pain and fear it sowed in the family, Epileptic is also a moving depiction of one family’s intricate history. Through flashbacks, we are introduced to the stories of Pierre-François’s grandparents and we relive his grandfathers’ experiences in both World Wars. We follow Pierre-François through his childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, all the while charting his complicated relationship with his brother and Jean-Christophe”s losing battle with epilepsy. Illustrated with beautiful and striking black-and-white images, Epileptic is as astonishing, intimate, and heartbreaking as the best literary memoir.
From the Hardcover edition.
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| ISBN: | 0375714685 (ISBN13: 9780375714689) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | L'Ascension du Haut Mal #1-6 omnibus |
| Characters: | Jean-Christophe |
Rating Out Of Books Epileptic (L'Ascension du Haut Mal #1-6 omnibus)
Ratings: 3.88 From 12711 Users | 637 ReviewsWrite Up Out Of Books Epileptic (L'Ascension du Haut Mal #1-6 omnibus)
The three stars are for the beautiful art work. As for the rest of the text, it is titled Epileptic. This graphic memoir begins with images of David B. and his brother, Jean-Christophe, as adults. David B. notes the ravages that epilepsy has wrought on his brother's body. Then, he quickly takes his readers into their shared past. He describes their play, their obsessions, their readings in stark and beautiful black and white panels. Then Jean-Christophe begins to experience more and more
Text: 1 starArt: 5 starsBlack-and-white young-adult graphic novel about growing up with an epileptic brother. I love the art, mainly because it's laced with visual metaphors. But the text is rather problematic. The narrative is distant and disjointed. The storyline wavers all over the place. Of the 360 pages of this book, less than half are about growing up with an epileptic brother. Whole sections are devoted to the creator's grandparents and their unrelated stories of growing up, wars, death,
I haven't yet read enough graphic novel memoirs to be able to say this with any authority, but this must be one of the most intense and tragic works the genre has produced (if it isn't, I'm not sure I could handle the others). The immediate story that "Epileptic" tells is that of the effect on the author and his family of his brother's Epilepsy the impact it has on their education, ambitions, careers; the many doctors, quacks, and fake spiritual gurus they placed their faith in over the years
Unapologetically brutal, honest, gruesome and sad. I didn't intend to write a review on this but I couldn't stop thinking about it a day later. It still haunts me. I really hate the author's guts. I hated him the most when he goes to his brother's room trying to tease him about his illness then justifying it with trying to help him out of his slump... I hated him when he thought of murdering his brother or leaving him behind. But I also respect him for his honesty and transparency, because
Unquestionably the worst comic book I have ever read, and among the worst books (period) that I have ever had the displeasure of having suffered through. Pretentious, long-winded, uninteresting conceptually and plot-wise, excruciatingly scattered and disjointed (in the WRONG way), and completely amateurish and one-trick when it comes to the drawing style. This looks and reads like (and may actually contain?) the immature student sketches of someone who might someday perhaps maybe grow into a
Comic books are a bit like video games insofar as they have been dogged by a stereotype of nerds with spiky hair bashing control pads, high fiving and using expressions like 'cowabunga, doooood'. I don't indulge in either that much, but I have enough experience to know that the crème de la crème of the mediums are credible (this basically means that I sometimes read comics and play GTA V...).I'll begin by saying that this is a deeply personal story which makes it all the more of an
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