This is a graphic novel written by David B., an acclaimed graphic novelist from Paris. It is autobiographical in a sense, but it has a focus on his brother, more than himself, and the severe case of epilepsy that his brother suffered from.
Right now they are children, and his brother has just begun his bout with epilepsy that will soon consume his life. It's incredible to me how expressive and emotional David B. can make his drawings feel. The amount of emotion packed into them, considering their simplistic, 2-D nature, is astounding. He can move you with a few well placed words and well illustrated metaphors. His writing is rampant with visual metaphors - strange images that stand for a characteristic about a person or a thing. For instance, he draws one man as a cat, because that is what the man seemed like to him. He draws his brother's disease as a terrifying dragon that is emerging from his brother's body.
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