Just finished "My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness" (again) and Nagata's simple drawings do what words can't in a memoir like this - the expressions are so open and easy to read that there's instant recognition and sympathy, instead of fumbling with word choices that may feel trite or overused when describing anxiety and depression.
I need to read more graphic novel memoirs. Having a visual representation makes the story so much clearer, instead of mixing facts with my own imagination trying to picture a real person in a setting I am most certainly getting wrong. (Don't get me wrong, I love imagining places in fiction and historical non-fiction. It just feels unbalanced and uncomfortably inaccurate to do regarding a living person.)
@erinbee media if this is an ask for recommendations i have a few
@erinbee The best we could do by Thi Bui and
Relish : my life in the kitchen by Lucy Knisley were the ones I thought of immediately
@ansate Thanks! I follow Lucy Knisley on Instagram, because her art is charming, but haven't actually read one of her books yet.
@ansate Yes, please!