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My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson's
Penn State University Press · 2016 · 1 issue
About the series
Peter Dunlap-Shohl's My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson's is a single-issue graphic memoir, published by Penn State University Press in 2016, that chronicles the author's personal experience living with Parkinson's disease. Through Dunlap-Shohl's own art and narrative, the comic offers an intimate, unflinching look at the physical and emotional challenges of the condition, while also exploring the resilience and dark humor that can accompany such a journey. It stands as a unique, deeply human document in the comics medium, bringing a rarely depicted medical reality to the page with honesty and warmth.