Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me

Ellen Forney

256 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction comics memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Description

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 w...

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emotional 83%
informative 75%
reflective 63%
hopeful 57%
funny 51%
inspiring 41%
dark 34%
challenging 16%
lighthearted 13%
sad 12%
adventurous 5%
tense 2%
relaxing 1%

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medium 35%
slow 6%

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