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Article: David B.
Posted: November 13, 2011
David B. is his own invention, a new self-made identity created by Pierre-François David Beauchard. He saw it as a way to restore the name David, which his mother originally wanted him to have, but his anti-semitic grandfather objected to. It was also a way to redefine and distinguish himself from his sometimes harrowing childhood dealing with his elder brother Jean-Christophe’s epilepsy. As his parents would never discuss the illness as he grew up, David B. embarked on an autobiographical account in comics form in his Thirties in an attempt to open a dialogue with them. This resulted in Epileptic, one of the most affecting family testimonies in comics since Art Spiegelman‘s Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust memoir Maus. Read the full article here…
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