Parenthesis #1

Parenthesis — Top Shelf

Issue: #1

A triumph of graphic memoir, Parenthesis narrates the author’s experience with tumor-related epilepsy—losing herself, and finding herself again. Julie is barely out of her teens when a tumor begins pressing on her brain, ushering in a new world of seizures, memory gaps, and loss of self. Suddenly, the sentence of her normal life has been interrupted by the opening of a parenthesis that may never c...

Creators: Chris Staros, Edward Gauvin, Nathan Widick, Elodie Durand