Even as he shows up the hollow promises of every school of esoteric and alternative medicine his family encounters in their quest for help, David B. "A painfully honest examination of the effects of debilitating epilepsy on one man and his family, told through a combination of straightforward text and expressionist imagery that ranges in its palette from centuries-old symbolism to the secret worlds of childhood. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. But every new cure ended in disappointment as Jean-Christophe, after brief periods of remission, would only get worse. In search of a cure, their parents dragged the family to acupuncturists and magnetic therapists, to mediums and macrobiotic communes. But their lives changed abruptly when Jean-Christophe was struck with epilepsy at age eleven. 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. was born Pierre-Fransois Beauchard in a small town near Orl?ans, France. Epileptic gathers together and makes available in English for the first time all six volumes of the internationally acclaimed graphic work. has created a masterpiece in Epileptic, his stunning and emotionally resonant autobiography about growing up with an epileptic brother. Hailed by The Comics Journal as one of Europe's most important and innovative comics artists, David B.
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