"You can't combat nothing": Allie Brosh's "Hyperbole and a Half" and reframing mental illness through webcomics

dc.contributor.authorSandford, Shannon
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-12T11:27:06Z
dc.date.available2021-07-30T07:46:16Z
dc.date.available2022-09-12T11:27:06Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractAmidst the powerfully democratizing, public spheres of Web 2.0, life writing has taken on new geographies and forms of mobility through webcomics. As an experi-mental mode of self-representation, webcomics are part of an urgent, digital turn in autobiographical writing, where speaking to one s personal experiences also takes place within the social economies of the Internet. This paper analyzes webcomics as a compelling new dimension of autobiographical illness narrative, using Allie Brosh s webcomic blog, Hyperbole and a Half, as its case study. Launched in 2009 on the free blog platform, Blogspot, Brosh s deceptively simplistic aesthetic and comically dark representation of mental illness has since amassed near-cult following online. Draw-ing on the discipline of life writing and from comics studies, I aim to position Brosh s webcomics within the field of graphic medicine and to explore how they might expand conventional understandings of illness within this contextual frame. Brosh s work is a significant precursor to hybrid forms of illness narrative still emerging from digital spaces this paper asks how webcomics capitalize on both the affordances of the Internet and the aesthetic of comics to connect audiences across vast distances with collective experiences of everyday illness.en
dc.identifier.issn2366-4142
dc.identifier.urihttp://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:26-opus-161716
dc.identifier.urihttps://jlupub.ub.uni-giessen.de//handle/jlupub/7705
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-7139
dc.language.isoende_DE
dc.rightsNamensnennung 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectdepressionde_DE
dc.subjectgraphic medicinede_DE
dc.subjectillness narrativede_DE
dc.subjectlife writingde_DE
dc.subjectwebcomicsde_DE
dc.subject.ddcddc:300de_DE
dc.title"You can't combat nothing": Allie Brosh's "Hyperbole and a Half" and reframing mental illness through webcomicsen
dc.typearticlede_DE
dcterms.isPartOf2856008-5de_DE
local.affiliationGCSC International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culturede_DE
local.opus.fachgebietGießener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaftende_DE
local.opus.id16171
local.opus.instituteInternational Graduate Centre for the Study of Culturede_DE
local.source.journaltitleOn_culture: the open journal for the study of culture
local.source.volume11

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