Psychiatric Tales

Psychiatric Tales, a single-issue comic from Blank Slate Books launched in 2010, offers an intimate and starkly honest exploration of mental illness through the lens of creator Darryl Cunningham's own experiences and those of his patients. Combining clear, compassionate storytelling with a restrained black-and-white art style, the book examines conditions from depression and OCD to dementia and schizophrenia. It stands as a vital, early example of the graphic medicine genre, using the comics medium to demystify and destigmatize psychiatric conditions with empathy and unflinching clarity.