Tessa Brunton

The author suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome and shares quite a bit about the effects it has had on her in these diary comics, but she also goes off on fanciful tangents about haunting her neighbors, designing homes, and outlining a graphic novel project set in a Disneyland-like amusement park that bored more than informed. The anecdotes skip around a lot, leaving huge gaps about progression of her condition and about the supportive people around her.

It's not a bad book but in the end, I felt more tantalized than satisfied.

Others liked it more than I did; it is listed on the Publishers Weekly 2022 Graphic Novel Critics Poll.… (more)

graphic memoir, humorous comics about the author/artist's years spent with undiagnosed chronic fatigue syndrome (untreatable but at least now she has a label for it, and she can sort of minimize the effects if she limits her activity)

loved the art content and style, and how she turned a truly frustrating and miserable experience into something positive. Would read more from this artist.

re: others' experiences with chronic fatigue/ME, see also:
rel="nofollow" target="_top">The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating more about the snail than about needing bedrest, but this author is similarly confined to her bed for several years.
George: A Magpie Memoir again, more about the magpie than in dealing with illness, but this author is occasionally also needing to limit her activity due to ME as well as chronic pain from a back injury.… (more)