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

Name: Marbles Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: a Graphic Memoir
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ISBN: 9781592407323

ISBN-10: 1592407323

ISBN-13: 9781592407323

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ellen Forney

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Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers. Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would cause her to lose creativity, she began a years-long struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passions and creativity.Searching to make sense of the popular 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…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.97" wide x 8.97" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Ellen Forney has been a professional cartoonist/ illustrator since 1992. She teaches comics at Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts. Ellen grew up in Philadelphia and currently lives in Seattle.