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. But every new cure ended in disappointment as Jean-Christophe, after brief periods of remission, would only get worse.Īngry at his brother for abandoning him and at all the quacks who offered them false hope, Pierre-François learned to cope by drawing fantastically elaborate battle scenes, creating images that provide a fascinating window into his interior life. 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-François Beauchard in a small town near Orléans, France. Epileptic gathers together and makes available in English for the first time all six volumes of the internationally acclaimed graphic work.ĭavid B. has created a masterpiece in Epileptic, his stunning and emotionally resonant autobiography about growing up with an epileptic brother. PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0adHailed by The Comics Journal as one of Europe’s most important and innovative comics artists, David B.
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