I got this last summer at The Million Year Picnic in Cambridge MA.Content warning for child sexual abuse/rape.
Title: All In The Family
Issue: Part 2: Angel
Date: June, 2016
Publisher: LB Lee
Writer: LB Lee
Artist: LB Lee
LB Lee, a multiple system, tells a multilayered story of child sexual assault, repressed memories, family, and levels of consciousness in this powerful and disturbing minicomic.
This was my first introduction to LB Lee's work, so the introductory page with the profiles of their personalities was helpful, but it still took me a few pages in to really get my bearings.
The overall story focuses on the abuse they suffered, and on their struggles with family who are in denial. There is also a segment on their research into recovered memories, false memories, and some of the history and politics stemming from well-known cases.
Some of the memories brought to light here are horrific, interspersed with moments of comfort and hope.
The storytelling style uses a lot of recurring themes and imagery, with bits of theoretical musings about consciousness and the nature of reality, a layering of different realities that the comic itself replicates in places.
This story is definitely part of an ongoing journey, a painful one, but one powerfully told.
Rating: 9/10
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