A review by crowyhead
Epileptic 1 L'Ascension du Haut Mal, 1-3 by David B.

4.0

This is volume one of the awesome memoir of a young man growing up in France in the 1960s and 70s. David's older brother, Jean-Christophe, suffers from intractable epilepsy, sometimes suffering multiple seizures per day. When all medical science can offer is doping Jean-Christophe into catatonia or risky surgery that could lead to blindness or worse, David's parents start to seek answers in alternative medicine and spiritualism.

The artwork and storytelling is truly impressive. David's complex black and white drawings range freely over the page, slotting into new configurations, and the story itself ranges widely in time as well.

I am really looking forward to reading the second half of this memoir.