Building a Girl Using Comix to Re-Create a Life, Story

Date of Award

2005

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Freedland, Barry

Keywords

Trauma, Healing, Comix, Comics: Underground Comix, PTSD, Borderline Personality Disorder, Archetypes, Unconscious, Subconscious, Mythology, Jung, Carl, Campbell, Joseph, Memoir, Thesis, Phoenix, Dragon, Cutting, Dream State, Faerie, Feminism, Feminist, Story, Insanity, Art and Insanity, Madness, Creativity, ADD, ADHD, Inner Child, Mystic, Stress, Thesis Stress, History of New College, Sex

Area of Concentration

Humanities

Abstract

This Thesis Project is (along with this explicatory paper and attendant bibliography and illustrations) a hundred-page comic book: a cathartic and dramatized retelling of my life during and a bit before my career as a student at New College. My purposes in writing it were, in order of compulsion: 1) to heal myself, by satisfying my need to tell the story of the striking events I've lived through; 2) to collect my research and memories in one place so as to not forget them again; 3) to aid the next generation of artists and abuse survivors, via information and solidarity; 4) to learn to build a graphic narrative well; 5) to graduate New College. Now, having accomplished #1, 2, 4, and 5, it is my hope that this comic find its way to the students who need it most, and they to it.

Rights

This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The New College of Florida, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.

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