Epileptic
Book Title:
Epileptic
- ISBN13: 9780375714689
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Book Description:
Hailed by The Comics Journal as one of the artists of the Europe most important & innovative comics, David B. has a masterpiece of epilepsy, his autobiography of growing up beautiful & emotionally resonant with an epileptic brother. Epileptic gathers & makes available in English for the first time all six volumes of the graphic works of international renown. David B. was born Pierre-Francois Beauchard in a small town near Orléans, France. He spent one idyllic childhood in the early play with the kids & with his older brother, Jean-Christophe, ganging against her small sister, Florence. But her life changed abruptly when Jean-Christophe was struck with epilepsy at eleven. In search of a cure, her parents moved the family acupuncturists & magnetic therapists, into media & macrobiotic communes. But every new cure in disappointment, ended when Jean-Christophe, after brief periods of remission, would only get worse. In anger against his brother for giving him & all the quacks who offered them false hope learned, Pierre-Francois by drawing fantastically elaborate battle scenes manage into create images that give fascinating window into his life inside. An honest & horrifying portrait of the illness & pain & fear it sowed in the family, the epilepsy is a moving portrayal of the complex history of a family. Through flashbacks, we currently the stories of the grandparents of Peter Franz & we experience the experience of the grandfathers “in the two world wars. We follow Pierre-François through his childhood, adolescence & adulthood, the whole battle while tracing their complicated relationship with his brother Jean Christophe-lose “with epilepsy. Illustrated with beautiful & striking black & white images, Epileptic is as astonishing, intimate & upsetting the short literary best. From the Hardcover edition.
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For people who reject the new forms of storytelling, I’ve always said that the areas of engineering in all media. The graphic novel MAUS is a good proof. Well I found one other is in this beautiful work of David B. epilepsy, the history of life, in fact, the author / artist and his family as they go through harrowing events surrounding David’s older brother epilepsy. I must say that the casual cruelty with which this child has been submitted by the municipality shocking. It is true that the essential core around which the course of history, he is also David conquered his own fears and personal demons, his development as an artist. It is interesting to see how his family was subjected to quackery – the desperate parents who love their son as they try everything that seems to offer hope. In any case, I recommend this book to all that flows with an interest in the topic, and all those interested in the graphic work.
Rating: 5 / 5
This must be one of the most imaginative and stirring, “Graphic Novels” ever published. (In fact, the graphic novel is misleading, because it is a non-fiction list.) The story is about how David grew B in France under the shadow of the illness of his brother. His brother had severe epilepsy with serious crises every day, and ends with a chronic disease and unstable, both physically and mentally. Although the family lost their time and hopes on all sorts of quacks and charlatans, mystics homeopathic David B felt beat madness and solitude, perhaps convinced that his epilepsy would make, after having already destroyed family stability. It is a story of a life, but what is perhaps more incredible art here is David B. His work is primarily black with a large amount of black ink illustrate both literally and allegorically darkness. His style also uses a lot of surrealism scary, and it has a great ability, the fear and frustration illustrate symbolic. My favorite example is the depiction of epilepsy David B’s brother as a Chinese dragon, which flows from his brother’s body and crafts threatening about the family, while his brother later dark as a scarecrow and threatening, if his behavior by seizures and psychosis damaged. In addition to being a really scary and sad story of how people are routinely given the alarming illness of a loved one, this book is a feast for the eyes with lovely works of art accessible and reflection. [~ ~ Doomsdayer520]
Rating: 5 / 5
I read this book in the prospect of a family member with epilepsy. This is not only a great “graphic novel”, it describes exactly the experience you have to live with a family member suffers. It was amazing to me that the author’s family was involved so much with other treatments. I can identify, because it is a factor in our family was, too. Macrobiotics has played a leading role in both cases, at first, but without effect. Reading of the journey I was not knowing if I laugh or cry, because these experiments are all too familiar.
I knew I wanted to identify with after reading this book on page 10 On this page is an image that many doctors do a ring around the patient and his parents. It is so typical of the endless search for a treatment that the person we knew before is again the crisis began. A phenomenon in this book captures so well is get a sense of helplessness about the crisis and go, despite medical treatment. Then, with poor control of the affected person may slip slowly down a path of spiritual decay.
I, like many alternative therapies had been brought impressed decided not to family. Each new alternative therapy as a hope for a cure “dangling straight away. Offered you seemed on the bandwidth of conventional medical treatments suitable both good. Perhaps frustration conventional and medicine, as the unrealistic expectations, whereupon forward to other ways of unconventional to explore treatments.
The work is great. The symbolism is wonderful. To understand this, it would be devoted to a reading, meditating to take every picture, and perhaps the reader would need a personal experience with a family member or friend who suffered from epilepsy. leafed through the book I now experience the experience I got from reading the first time. The drawings bring the emotions.
I recommend this book highly. For those who would seek alternative treatment, except for epilepsy, has to offer modern Western medicine, the results make the book you might think twice.
Rating: 5 / 5
David B., Epileptic (Pantheon, 2005)
Let us pause a moment to reflect on the fact that the first two books were in this issue of the magazine, both published in 2005 reflect and I am their revision in 2005. I do not think that it never happened.
That is, here epilepsy, a graphic novel from the prolific pen has just published Association co-founder David B. Originally, in six parts, in France, which extends between 1996 and 2003, is now published in an English translation of the Pantheon, while those of us on this side of the pond, not to mention British and other Anglo-Saxon folk out there who do not know, do a lick of French (she still?), can see what all the excitement is.
What is the world speak for the most part, the drawings themselves is the what all the rave reviews on the harp. David B. is an artist with exceptional talent that can integrate, interpret and ruminate almost all schools of art and the style of a particular artist, which he puts his thoughts and his own style, which have quite uniformly dark and brooding. (Think an illegitimate cross between Frank Miller and Rich Little. On second thought, not because I do not want to be responsible for you, which struck at the same blind and crazy.) It also is the scenario, but I mean is a memory when my library is fiction or not, it’s something to write about your family, and someone wants to read, but if it comes right back to writing a dissertation, you need not go so far to the material.
What impressed me most about epilepsy is that it is the first graphic novel Watchmen, since I was a really strong sense of time to read. This is not so much that is linear, David B. jumps back in time on a fairly regular basis. Because you know what he does not need any special tricks to announce (although do not tell you every time he starts on a dream). In David B. The gorgeous, symbols are so deeply rooted and so well done that the reader can determine where reality ends and flashbacks (or before) starts without problems. There is no sense of impressionism that America seems to have taken by storm graphics. And thanks be to heaven for it. Epileptic, therefore, is an incredibly readable piece of graphics, and comes highly recommended from this camp. *** ½
Rating: 4 / 5
Basically, everyone wants to Creator, a definitive work that all of his powers or greater – something with which he or she also recall complete. If they are lucky, they will do the job, and praised the efforts completed and shown great support and respect. For the association’s activities as David, probably the epilepsy knockout artist. The concept of the book stuck in the mind of Mr. B. “For twenty years prior to its publication, and the incubation period is obviously reading. />
Epilepsy is unapologetically autobiographical. David B. Young (born Pierre -Francois) grew up in France, with a younger sister and an older brother, the second of which diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of seven years. Meanwhile, very little was known about the disease outside the medical community, said David’s brother, Jean-Christophe was cursed twice, he fell in the streets of Orleans (or Bourges and Paris) and would be subjected to the harassment of passers-by the police, who the child was simply meant “crazy” (crazy), or on drugs. Finally, he was by his friends and some family members abandoned immediately.
His immediate family, of course, instead of a little hope was offered. On the field of traditional medicine of the time, the parents of Jean-Christophe children in a variety of treatment methods involved: macrobiotics, acupuncture, massage… almost everything offered in the 1960 France held a glimmer of hope for the suffering child and his family. “It was the only thing we had,” said Mrs. B. “We quickly realized we had a lot fewer resources to deal with Jean-Christophe … I was blindly groping for a response. “
However, epilepsy is not only 350 + pages of complacent pity. It is the story of the management of a child, illness of a close friend – his brother. The book describes the life of a whole family infected inseparable from the disease of the older children to see. are the episodes of depression induced impotence, humiliation and disappointment. Also shown are small wonders of life, lessons provided by introversion and rebirth time a boy’s self and time again. Although The book covers the life of the artist of the year 1964 to 1994 (with an emphasis on the early years), the story flows seamlessly as the passage of time occurs only Jean-Christophe away from the family’s frequent seizures and psychotic calls for too much the to manage family has become to the conclusion of the book.
is however noted that – from time to time – the natural flow of the book about through detailed descriptions of the various holistic treatments and theories for the attempted cure of Jean-Christophe hindered. Sometimes, such a descriptive passage on several pages cover only the actual “processing” him also shortly thereafter. checked it was an attempt to defeat the author scope of the players up to one empathize with some ability to undermine his own cause despondency? Perhaps if the author is too subtle to admit. />
Although not without fault, epilepsy is a bright spot in the autobiographical comic genre. It is one to be read over several sessions, because, how the concept was in the mind of the author for some time that it is obvious that requires equipment to ferment of the time in the minds of readers as well.
Rating: 4 / 5