Panty-Dropping Comics with an introduction by Sherman Alexie This slick oversize volume collects a decade of Forney's fun-filled frolics in the funny pages.  In full color and black and white this 110-page collection includes collaborations with Margaret Cho, Kristin Gore, Dan Savage and a host of various experts.  Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll are the order of the day.  Alison Bechdel sez, "Ellen Forney's hilarious, exuberant, powerfull, voluptuous drawings are a frickin' force of nature." 

Marbles (as in "she's lost her marbles") is the latest widely heralded "graphic memoir" release from a major publisher, in this case, the Gotham Books imprint of Penguin.  Maus, Persepolis, Fun Home:  these are but the most widely known of among countless others in this quite successful publishing category.   There's something about comics that allows an up close and personal communion unequaled by other forms and that makes it perhaps the ideal medium for confessional tales, as first revealed back in 1972 by Justin Green with his Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary.  As the title suggests, this work focuses on Forney's grappling with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.  No stranger to the graphic memoir, Forney has been a published cartoonist for fifteen years, and and can count among her works the zesty and zany look at her 1970s childhood, Monkey Food.  In its focus on psychiatry, coming out and coping, Marbles is a satisfying read and might be a good suggestion for anyone looking to follow up Alison Bechdel's latest, Are You My Mother?, which occupies a similar terrain, albeit on very different terms. 

Edited by MK Czerwiec

Check out the contributor list!

Lynda Barry, Maureen Burdock, Jennifer Camper, KC Councilor, MK Czerwiec, Leslie Ewing, Joyce Farmer, Ellen Forney, Ann M. Fox, Keet Geniza, Roberta Gregory, Teva Harrison, Rachael House, Leah Jones, Monica Lalanda, Cathy Leamy, Ajuan Mance, Jessica Moran, Mimi Pond, Sharon Rosenzweig, Joyce Schachter, Susan Merrill Squier, Emily Steinberg, Nicola Streeten, A. K. Summers, Kimiko Tobimatsu, Carol Tyler, Shelley L. Wall, and Dana Walrath.

GRAPHIC MUNDI SEZ:

"Hot flashes. Vaginal atrophy. Social stigma. The comics in this unapologetic anthology prove that when it comes to menopause and its attendant symptoms, no one needs to sweat it alone. Menopause is the perfect antidote to the simplistic, cheap-joke approach that treats menopause as a cultural taboo. This anthology challenges stereotypes with perspectives from a range of life experiences, ages, gender identities, ethnicities, and health conditions."

Winner of the 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Anthology and Best Short Story.

hardcover | 144 pages | 8" × 10" |

ISBN: 9781637790106