The Third Person, by Emma Grove (memoir comic, 2022)
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rax and erinptah !
"There's something else from when I was a kid... something I've done since I was a little kid, and I don't know why... I've always thought of myself in the plural!"
Blurb: 900-page comics memoir about a messed-up therapy relationship and being gatekept out of transitioning due to DID.
Why is it worth your time?: Quoth Rax: "we [...] enjoyed it a lot. [...] it is definitely a trans memoir but the plural aspects are at least more personally interesting. it can be painful in places, and the therapist character is really awful in places, but it's also wickedly funny and does a good job of respecting the author's privacy when she doesn't feel like sharing something. the ending is... it feels a little too neatly wrapped up compared to our experiences or the experiences of people we know, but (a) maybe the author's experience wrapped up! that happens! and (b) maybe it didn't and she reasonably concluded the details of that aren't the world at large's business."
Quoth Erin, "I've read it, and it did turn out to be very good! The 800-page length isn't as overwhelming as it sounds -- it covers long conversations in detail with a new panel every line or two, plus beat panels for the silences, so it doesn't take much reading to whip through a bunch of pages. And the marketing copy taking the therapist's POV was a weird choice -- the book itself is so blatantly from the perspective/s of the author, who's just earnestly trying to get some support."
Plural Tags: DID, switching, abuse high-focus (by a therapist of their adult client), fusion/integration, plural creator
Content Warnings: contain spoilers! In comments below.
Accessibility Notes: This comic is VERY long, 900 pages, though it apparently goes by very quickly! Available in both paper and ebook.
rax and erinptah !"There's something else from when I was a kid... something I've done since I was a little kid, and I don't know why... I've always thought of myself in the plural!"
Blurb: 900-page comics memoir about a messed-up therapy relationship and being gatekept out of transitioning due to DID.
Why is it worth your time?: Quoth Rax: "we [...] enjoyed it a lot. [...] it is definitely a trans memoir but the plural aspects are at least more personally interesting. it can be painful in places, and the therapist character is really awful in places, but it's also wickedly funny and does a good job of respecting the author's privacy when she doesn't feel like sharing something. the ending is... it feels a little too neatly wrapped up compared to our experiences or the experiences of people we know, but (a) maybe the author's experience wrapped up! that happens! and (b) maybe it didn't and she reasonably concluded the details of that aren't the world at large's business."
Quoth Erin, "I've read it, and it did turn out to be very good! The 800-page length isn't as overwhelming as it sounds -- it covers long conversations in detail with a new panel every line or two, plus beat panels for the silences, so it doesn't take much reading to whip through a bunch of pages. And the marketing copy taking the therapist's POV was a weird choice -- the book itself is so blatantly from the perspective/s of the author, who's just earnestly trying to get some support."
Plural Tags: DID, switching, abuse high-focus (by a therapist of their adult client), fusion/integration, plural creator
Content Warnings: contain spoilers! In comments below.
Accessibility Notes: This comic is VERY long, 900 pages, though it apparently goes by very quickly! Available in both paper and ebook.