Sunday, August 14, 2022

Flung Out of Space

Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer
This is a biographical graphic novel of the life of Patricia Highsmith, the lesbian author of the first lesbian novel with a happy ending, The Price of Salt, republished 38 years later in 1990 as Carol under her own name, and later adapted into the 2015 film of the same name. In telling Highsmith's story, the authors illustrate the difficulties faced by lesbians in the 1950s, when being a lesbian was an illness, a sin, and against the law.

The Third Person

The Third Person by Emma Grove
In this graphic novel Emma Grove tells the story of her experience with a transgender therapist whom she sought out to get approval for hormone replacement therapy, only to be diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. She and the therapist discover she has three personalities: Edwin, Emma and Katina. She finds she has to deal with her multiple personalities and the childhood trauma that caused them to exist before she can succesfully continue with her transition.