Acknowledgments
Introduction
MK Czerwiec
Menopause
Maureen Burdock
Menopositive!
Lynda Barry
#crockpotrunner
Ann M. Fox
When My Biological Clock Stopped Ticking
Monica Lalanda
Burning Up
Comic Nurse (MK Czerwiec)
Desertification
A. K. Summers
Zen and the Art of Menopausal Maintenance
Leslie Ewing
Climacteric Calamity
Rachael House
My Menopause Story
Sharon Rosenzweig
“Are You Sexually Active?”: Vaginal Truth Telling
Joyce Schachter and Jessica Moran
Invisible Lady
Carol Tyler
The End, for Now
Roberta Gregory
A Slow Intermittent Leak
Jennifer Camper
2:14 am–4:43 am: Let Me Introduce Myself
Nicola Streeten
Any Day Now
Ajuan Mance
Cycles
KC Councilor
An End Is Not the End
Leah Jones and Cathy Leamy
Ready, Set, “Pause”
Ellen Forney
The Big Change
Teva Harrison
Paused
Emily Steinberg
Kimiko Does Menopause
Kimiko Tobimatsu and Keet Geniza
Surgical Menopause—in Ten Postures
Susan Merrill Squier and Shelley L. Wall
When the Menopause Carnival Comes to Town
Mimi Pond
(A) Men-O-Pause
Dana Walrath
Antique Restoration
Joyce Farmer
Resources
List of Contributors
Winner of the 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Anthology and Best Short Story
A Booklist 2020 Best Graphic Novel for Adults
A New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2020
MK Czerwiec, RN, MA, is the artist in residence at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the cocurator of GraphicMedicine.org. She has served as a Senior Fellow of the George Washington School of Nursing Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement and as an Applied Cartooning Fellow of the Center for Cartoon Studies. She is the creator of the graphic memoir Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 and coauthor of Graphic Medicine Manifesto, both published by Penn State University Press.
“Often informative, sometimes moving, and ambitious in its frank
talk about what is oddly taboo: an inevitable experience for half
of humanity.”—Publishers Weekly
“Playful and enjoyable indeed, as well as moving, affirming, and
solidarity-sparking.”—starred review Booklist
“The cartoons in Menopause: A Comic Treatment depict what is
generally considered an unbecoming, if not humiliating, life event.
This collection, edited by M.K. Czerwiec, joins the Graphic
Medicine Series (Escaping Wars and Waves) in treating a complex
topic with candor and creativity. Twenty-five comics represent
diverse women and their experiences, in drawing styles as
distinctive as the artists.”—starred review Shelf Awareness
“Shattering the silence and secrecy surrounding the ‘big change,’
Menopause: A Comic Treatment offers an unflinching look at an often
stigmatized or taboo topic.”—Mike Rhode International Journal of
Comic Art
“There is so much politics, a lot of it quite toxic, attached to
everything about us, including our bodies. What’s refreshing about
this book, in that regard, is that it’s engaged in some primal
truth.”—Henry Chamberlain Comics Grinder
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