Epileptic

A starkly intimate graphic memoir from French artist David B., Epileptic (originally published in France as L'Ascension du Haut Mal) chronicles his family's decades-long struggle with his older brother's severe epilepsy. Spanning from the 1960s onward, the book explores the toll of the illness on family dynamics, identity, and childhood, rendered in David B.'s distinctive, ink-heavy style that blends surreal imagery with raw autobiography. Published in English by Random House in 2006, this single-volume work stands as a landmark of the graphic memoir genre, praised for its unflinching honesty and artistic ambition.