![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Hailed by The Comics Journal as one of Europe’s most important and innovative comics artists, David B. ![]()
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