
Visualizing End of Life Issues
RESOURCES – COMICS & GRAPHIC MEMOIRS
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast
"In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents."
Cancer Vixon
Marisa Acocella Marchetto
"What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds... a lump in her breast?"
The following comics are required and suggested texts for University of Chicago course KNOW 37015:Death Panels – Exploring Dying and Death through Comics, taught by Brian Callender, MD and MK Czerwiec, RN.
Ghosts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier
Dancing at the Pity Party
Tyler Feder
Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371a
MK Czierwiec
You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife
Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars: A Graphic Memoir
By Rick Louis and Lara Antal
Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love
Marissa Moss
What to Do When I'm Gone: A Mother's Wisdom to Her Daughter
Suzy Hopkins and Hallie Bateman
Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir
Tom Hart
Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park: . . . When You're 29 and Unemployed
Aneurin Wright
Special Exits
Joyce Farmer
Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
Sarah Leavitt
The House
Paco Roca
Cry, Heart, But Never Break
Glenn Ringtved and Charlotte Pardi
Outbreak! Plagues that Changed History
Bryn Barnard