![]() ![]() “Everything was magical & intense, & bursting with universal truth.” Soon after, her therapist refers Forney to a psychiatrist, and the two begin to look at her extreme moods and try to find a course of treatment. The book opens with Forney getting a tattoo on her back, so charged from the endorphin rush that she kisses the artist (“Tongue & all!”) afterwards and walks home in the snow. Her personal story is both funny and touching, but the research Forney did while trying to understand her own condition gives Marbles usefulness beyond the human sharing common to memoir. In her new graphic memoir, cartoonist Ellen Forney tackles that question in light of its impact on her work as an artist with Bipolar I Disorder. ![]() ‘Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me’ by Ellen ForneyĪn association between artistic creativity and mental illness is something many of us take for granted without questioning which came first or why the two should be linked. ![]()
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