Drawing Disability: Superman, Huntington’s, and the Comic Form in It’s a Bird …

Crilley, Mariah

doi:10.1057/9781137501110_6

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“…In fact, in instances where superhero comic books have addressed mental illnesses, they have often done so poorly, relying on stereotypes and clichés. Villains were often shown as ugly, asocial, or broken characters, whose mental illness was simply a precursor to their villainy, whereas superheroes were shown as unstoppable and physically perfect in almost every way (Crilley, 2016).…”

Section: Superheroes and Mental Illnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although metaphors for depression can vary greatly because each person experiences depression differently, common metaphors include darkness, descent, being weighed down by a heavy burden, a lack of control, and being trapped (El Refaie, 2014;Forceville & Paling, 2018). Other metaphors describe depression as a cloud, a storm, a container, a prison, a shadow, a vacuum, a depict mental illness accurately (Crilley, 2016) or that they are associated with immaturity (Chambliss, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Depression and the Devil of Hell's Kitchen: Exploring How Mental Illness Is Depicted in Daredevil Comic Books

Siddiqui¹

2021

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This MRP explores how depression is depicted in Marvel’s Daredevil comic books through multimodal metaphors. It seeks to answer the following research questions: 1) How do the visual, textual, and spatial elements in Daredevil comic books work together to communicate depression? 2) What role does depression play within each Daredevil comic book narrative? A close reading was conducted to analyze how depression was communicated in two Daredevil comic books that explicitly discuss depression. This project found that characters discussed their mental illness experience through chaos and quest illness narratives, using a combination of visual and textual metaphors. Their accounts resembled medical representations of depression symptoms. The depiction of mental illness within the two Daredevil comics suggests that mainstream American superhero comics can both depict mental illnesses in a medically accurate manner and present them as authentic character experiences. This MRP provides a meaningful foundation for future research that explores how mainstream American superhero comics can play a larger role in graphic medicine and mental health communication. Keywords: comics, depression, mental illness, graphic medicine, illness narratives, superhero

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Section: Superheroes and Mental Illnessmentioning

confidence: 99%