![]() That’s already happening with prose novels such as John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down, in which the main character has obsessive-compulsive disorder. “If you can build information into a narrative with characters that people care about, they are more likely to connect with it.” “Graphic novels tell a story,” says Matthew Noe, library fellow at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA, and a graphic medicine specialist at the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region. Also, there’s the intrinsic appeal of the format. ![]() ![]() As a visual medium, the genre can convey the emotional perspective of mental illness and the distortions of reality that sometimes occur, more effectively than words alone. Graphic novels are a powerful tool for portraying mental illness for two reasons: they are graphic, and they are novels. ![]() How I Made It to Eighteen by Tracy White. ![]()
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