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	Epileptic by David B.: Reviews
		The acclaimed autobiograhpical graphic novel by David B. (aka Pierre-François Beauchard) gets a belated English-language translation and publication, after originally surfacing in his native France as a six-volume series in the 1990s.
		Epileptic somewhat resembles Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis books in style and execution; David B.'s art is far more varied and more sophisticated, but it shares some of Satrapi's dense fl-and-white impressionism, and his detailed reportage on his family history, contemporaneous politics, and his internal struggles with anger and helplessness all seem hauntingly familiar.
		Epileptic is honest, sometimes to a fault, and perceptive, especially about a kid's view of disease.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/bdavid/epileptic (951 words)

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		A graphic novel, comprised of the first three of a six-volume series released in France, in which the author chronicles his trials and tribulations dealing with his brother's epilepsy while growing up in the 1970s.
		A graphic novel in which Boon Sai Hong, a scoundrel with nothing more on his mind than thievery, learns he is destined to be the hero of his world.
		A graphic novel account of the life and grisly career of serial killer H.H. Holmes, particularly focusing on his life in Chicago, where he was responsible for an unknown number of deaths in the late nineteenth century.
	www.edmonds.wednet.edu /mths/LibraryResources/graphicNovelBooks.htm (762 words)

	Epileptic \| The A.V. Club
		Jean-Christophe Beauchard was 11 when he began having epileptic seizures, which had a profound effect on him emotionally and socially as well as physically.
		Epileptic tracks the Beauchards' efforts to treat him with surgery and acupuncture, spiritualism and macrobiotics, occultists and gurus, in a parade of self-proclaimed mediums and healers that dominated the entire family's life.
		Epileptic portrays Jean-Christophe's illness as a monster enveloping him, or a ghost haunting him; throughout the book, David B. often presents his actual dreams, but they're generally less nightmarish than his cluttered, protean visions of the real world.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/21592/print (442 words)

	Paul Gravett: Graphic Novels - Stories To Change Your Life
		Graphic Novels: slick coffee-table format, but Gravett is a serious observer of the scene and covers a lot of ground (same goes for his Manga book...).
		Graphic novels, whether composed as such or assembled as collections of comics, are one of the most interesting artistic genres of our time.
		The graphic novel is a radically impure form, and liable to mockery by those who refuse to understand its origins, its conventions and its subject matters.
	www.paulgravett.com /books/graphicnovels/graphicnovels.htm (6961 words)

	Amazon.de: Epileptic. Graphic Novel: English Books: David B.,David Beauchard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Epileptic is a memoir of B.'s evolution into an artist, how learning to re-envision and recreate the world with his eyes and hands became his escape route from the madness and disease that might have destroyed him.
		What B. picks up from that culture, from the military history he obsesses over and from his brother's cruel delusions is the raw material of his art: his stylized bodies and objects, which look like woodcuts and urn drawings, and especially his constant conflation of physical reality and symbolic value.
		Fazit: Die Graphic Novel bleibt lesenswert, auch wenn ich mir etwas anderes von ihr erhofft hatte.
	www.amazon.de /Epileptic-Graphic-Novel-David-B/dp/0375423184 (1196 words)

	Epileptic - David B. - Graphic novel review
		Epileptic is the autobiographical story of a boy whose brother, Jean-Christophe, has epilepsy, and the detrimental impact the disease has on their whole family.
		Epileptic is a powerful and literate examination of living with epilepsy, charting the heartbreaking deterioration of Jean-Christophe alongside his epilepsy's inevitable impact on those around him.
		Honestly told and charting the lives of people who are, thankfully, still with us, there's little conclusion to tie the story up or warm our hearts.
	www.grovel.org.uk /reviews/epileptic-01/epileptic-01.htm (357 words)

	Graphic Novels
		Graphic novels have always been a nighttime-flashlight-under-the-covers motivator and they are, as you already know, making a sweeping comeback.
		So you see, graphic novels are an ever-changing kaleidoscope of page turners that every educator should shelf amidst the window dressing lure books and the classics.
		Graphic novels fill the gap and web an intricate bond between trend and classic.
	www.graphicnovels.brodart.com /classroom_project.htm (1448 words)

	The Badger Herald - Graphic novel elicits powerful emotions, sets new standards
		In a graphic novel, the story is one thing, but if the illustrations don’t match the theme or if they aren’t up to par, then the novel will be a failure.
		“Epileptic’s” success should not be based on the lack of intriguing graphic novels on the self today.
		In any case, “Epileptic” is so incredibly good that it will set the standard for all graphic novels to come.
	badgerherald.com /artsetc/2005/10/17/graphic_novel_elicit.php (907 words)

	foldedspace.org: Graphic Novels for People Who Hate Comics
		This true-crime graphic novel tells of his other big case, the one that ruined him: a series of gruesome killings.
		The graphic novel on which it is based is a little different, emphasizing the relationship between the two young women, and spending less time on secondary characters.
		Comics and graphic novels are often marginalized by the well-read, and that's too bad.
	www.foldedspace.org /weblog/2006/05/graphic_novels_for_people_who.html (4307 words)

	Epilepsy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1989, the ILAE proposed a classification scheme for epilepsies and epileptic syndromes.
		In most cases, the proper emergency response to a generalized tonic-clonic epileptic seizure is simply to prevent the patient from self-injury by moving him or her away from sharp edges, placing something soft beneath the head, and carefully rolling the person into the recovery position to avoid asphyxiation.
		In ancient times, epilepsy was known as the "Sacred Disease" because people thought that epileptic seizures were a form of attack by demons, or that the visions experienced by persons with epilepsy were sent by the gods.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epileptic (4253 words)

	Mind Hacks: Epileptic - the comic
		Epileptic is a comic book by David B that charts the impact of his brother's epilepsy on the author's life and family.
		The portrayal of epilepsy is accurate and sensitive, and rivals Ray Robinson's novel Electricity for its impact.
		Epileptic was released in paperback earlier this year (ISBN 0224079204).
	www.mindhacks.com /blog/2006/08/epileptic_the_comi.html (205 words)

	Pantheon Graphic Novels
		Persepolis is the movie inspired by Marjane Satrapi’s life as recounted in her graphic memoirs, Persepolis and Persepolis 2.
		Here are three delightful, bittersweet, especially-for-our-time adult stories of modern life as lived by men and women of a certain age: the baby boomer.
		Epileptic gathers together and makes available in English for the first time all six volumes...
	www.randomhouse.com /pantheon/graphicnovels/home.pperl (424 words)

	Montreal Mirror : Books : Epileptic
		French graphic novelist David B.'s recently translated Epileptic is already being hailed as a masterpiece of the form, up there with seminal works like Art Spiegelman's Maus.
		Most epilepsy disappears after childhood and mild forms are rarely diagnosed, so my theory is that it's an experience that might haunt people at a subconscious level, and explain why comix artists are especially protective of their childhood imagination.
		The novel is the story of the two brothers' lives through childhood and into young adulthood through the late, '60s, '70s and early '80s in France.
	www.montrealmirror.com /2005/022405/books.html (643 words)

	Vue Weekly : Articles
		David B., the creator of the new autobiographical graphic novel Epileptic, was born in 1959 to bookish if not quite intellectual parents in a small town just outside Orléans, France.
		Jean-Christophe began having epileptic seizures at the age of 11, often several times a day, and over the years that followed, David watched him change from the brother he once knew into a bitter, withdrawn, antisocial freak completely unable (and unwilling) to engage with society, even during his lucid moments.
		And indeed, the rest of Jean-Christophe’s family are affected by his epilepsy almost as profoundly as he is. The most compelling (as well as the most frustrating) sections of the book depict the endless parade of crackpot cures the Beauchards employ in hopes of curing their son.
	www.vueweekly.com /articles/default.aspx?i=1680 (579 words)

	Lit \| San Francisco Bay Guardian
		In Epileptic the relationship between self-expression and independence can be seen in how Pierre-François's coming of age differs from that of Jean-Christophe, whose immaturity, physical weakness, and faltering communication skills become inextricably entangled.
		This determination gives birth to the idea for Epileptic, in which epilepsy takes the form of a serpent that winds through Jean-Christophe's life and bursts from his mouth (as he asks, "Why me? Why?"), like a dragon that no hero can slay.
		The book is most powerful in presenting myriad, even contradictory representations of illness as electrical discharges in the brain, a virulent serpent, a tall mountain to climb, a loss for words, or a refusal to face adult responsibilities.
	www.sfbg.com /39/38/lit_epileptic.html (975 words)

	Pantheon Graphic Novels
		Epileptic by David B. In the tradition of Art Spiegelman's Maus and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis—David B.'s stunning graphic memoir about growing up with an epileptic brother.
		A deliciously satiric graphic novel that updates the tragic story of literature's most famous adulteress.
		Here are the most beloved comics characters in the world, as you've never seen them before...
	www.randomhouse.com /pantheon/graphicnovels/calendar05.html (176 words)

	PIXELSURGEON \| Reviews \| Books \| Epileptic
		French born and raised the multi award winning artist was one of the founding members of L'Association, a group of acclaimed French cartoonists who have pretty much revolutionised European comic books with their unusual treatment of the format.
		Epileptic is an autobiographical account of David B.'s childhood growing up in France with a younger sister and older brother.
		Epileptic, collected from six individual volumes in French, is one of the first books in this field that can be described as a memoir.
	pixelsurgeon.com /reviews/review.php?id=679 (632 words)

	Mind Hacks: August 2006 Archives
		By the nature of his job, the novel's protagonist is in the unenviable position of never feeling entirely grounded in a single identity, a feeling exacerbated by the fact he is frequently required to view himself in the third person when watching surveillance tapes.
		In the novel, Fred's mind and brain are regularly tested by police department psychologists, owing to the stress of both maintaining a dual identity, and taking drugs as part of his undercover life.
		Substance D, the drug in Dick's novel, is described as being quite amphetamine-like, including its negative effects and consequences (for example, delusional parasitosis is quite common in amphetamine psychosis).
	www.mindhacks.com /blog/2006/08/index.html (10566 words)

	artbomb.net
		Originally published in France as L'Ascension du Haut-Mal, EPILEPTIC is an autobiographical graphic novel documenting David B.'s coming of age in the 1960s and 70s, during which his family was preoccupied with his brother's epilepsy disorder.
		You never forget these are true events that happened to five real people: the struggling parents, the bemused sister, the creative author, and the frustrated epileptic.
		David B. describes vexing phenomena as large as history or family, or as tiny as a split-second electrical interruption of the brain, with an elegance, conviction and humanity that any doctor would envy.
	www.artbomb.net /detail.jsp?tid=434 (320 words)

	Epileptic Books
		Epileptic gathers together and makes available in English for the first time all six volumes of the internationally acclaimed graphic work.
		An honest and horrifying portrait of the disease and of the pain and fear it sowed in the family, Epileptic is also a moving depiction of one family’s intricate history.
		(Actually the term graphic novel is a misnomer here because it's a non-fiction memoir.) The story concerns how David B grew up in France under the shadow of his brother's illness.
	www.tvcrazy.net /0375423184/Epileptic.html (682 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: Graphic Novels
		Good news, comics fans: the latest batch of graphic novels includes some of the best and most notable titles to come out in some time.
		His older brother, Jean-Christophe, developed epilepsy at age 11, and the impact this had on the artist as a child, a teen and an adult is detailed in alternately sweet, tragic and hilarious fashion.
		Subtitled "The Pioneering Spirit of the Father of the Graphic Novel," it collects essays about the artist's work and influence, an A-to-Z who's-who of The Spirit and glossy color reproductions of the Spirit's origins and the famous episode "Gerhard Shnobble." Written with enthusiasm and authority, it's as entertaining as it is encyclopedic.
	www.bookpage.com /0503bp/fiction/graphic_novels.html (953 words)

	Bookmarks Magazine - Advertise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The novel begins in 1861 with a letter to his wife, Marmee, and their four young daughters.
		Epileptic, the most recently acclaimed European graphic novel and winner of the French national cartooning award “Alph’Art,” has finally appeared in English in entirety.
		Epileptic is a true coming-of-age story that is also a memoir: a disturbingly honest story about childhood that is unable to gloss over the wars that sit, as glowering monsters, behind the Western middle class.
	www.bookmarksmagazine.com /Levenger/Selections20050506.html (5622 words)

	Montreal Mirror : 2005 Year in Review : Books
		Novels by women about men: Emerging cult author Lydia Millet published two provocative contributions to this genre, Everyone’s Pretty, about a pornographer with a messianic complex, and Oh Pure and Radiant Heart about the three inventors of the atom bomb.
		Novels by men about women: Toby Litt’s parody of chick lit, Finding Myself, was way better than most chicklit, and an interesting solution to the problem male writers face writing saleable books in a market dominated by women readers.
		Best graphic novel: Epileptic by French bedist David B. An intensely brilliant memoir of life with his epileptic brother and crazy intellectual bohemian parents.
	www.montrealmirror.com /2005/122205/yir_books.html (651 words)

	Nonfiction offers big pictures, small lives - Summer books 2006 - MSNBC.com
		Graphic novel "Epileptic" takes readers into the pain of a French family trying to help their oldest son fight severe epilepsy.
		Graphic novels are more than comic books for adults.
		Such is the case with the astounding "Epileptic" by French comic artist David B. (Pantheon, $25).
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6848769 (1199 words)

	Jenny Boyar '08 Studies Literary Representations of Epilepsy through Independent Research
		She studied Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, and David B’s graphic novel Epileptic and used Freudian psychoanalytic theory to examine how an author’s affliction with epilepsy affects his creative work.
		Freud’s “epileptic pathology” theory was a significant component of Boyar’s project, requiring her to research Freudian psychoanalysis so she could apply it to the works and analyze the illness’ role in the texts.
		“In Epileptic, the protagonist is portrayed as being stupefied by his illness; the medical treatment he receives in order to prevent seizures has permanently dulled his senses,” she explains.
	www.lafayette.edu /news.php/view/8187 (1059 words)

	TIME.com -- Andrew Arnold: Metaphorically Speaking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Two new works, "Babel" (32 pages; $10), a comic book released by Drawn and Quarterly, and "Epileptic," his extraordinary graphic novel just arriving from Pantheon Books, find visual metaphors for such elusive concepts as dreams, the forces of history, and illness.
		Gradually "Epileptic" becomes as much a portrait of an artist as a portrait of a family in crisis.
		Is it possible to draw that with a pencil and a piece of paper?" His solution to that particular challenge is to depict his brother in coils of a fantastical snake, twisting him in knots.
	www.time.com /time/columnist/arnold/article/0,9565,1015442,00.html (1134 words)

	Maus I & Maus II - GRAPHIC NOVELS - tribe.net
		Moonshadow is one of my favourite graphic novels.
		"Epileptic" by David B. would be a great novel that teenagers might identify to.
		The story of a epileptic kid and how his brother helps him fight his difference.
	graphicnovels.tribe.net /thread/0c71e069-e1f5-4072-a68b-d36d49516ff2 (500 words)

	Epileptic by David B. • Pantheon Books • hardcover & softcover, both in stock
		Epileptic by David B. • Pantheon Books • hardcover and softcover, both in stock
		As readers of David B.'s recently released Babel already know, he is a formidable graphic stylist with a strong and sure line and a great sense of how to use fls to create a balanced page.
		Epileptic is the story of an idyllic childhood abruptly and traumatically shattered by the onset of a brother's epilepsy, followed by the ordeal that ensued and the intermittent retreats into fantasy that proved to offer respite.
	home.earthlink.net /~copaceticcomicsco/Epileptic.html (249 words)

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