“Us Two Together”: Creating an Autobiographical Visual Narrative about Dementia Cardon, Eva article article article Text https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:468-20171121-120256-9 https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/ https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00000202 doc-type:article ScholarlyArticle ddc:800 0820 Allgemeine und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften » DIEGESIS » Jg. 6 (2017) H. 2 ‘Graphic medicine’ or ‘graphic pathography’, a subgenre of the autobiographical comic, enables patients or caregivers to relate personal encounters with disease, mostly to process these experiences. When I set out to create the graphic narrative Wij twee samen (“Us Two Together”, 2015), which deals with my father’s developing dementia and slow decline, the goal was to attract a broader audience’s interest. By using strategies and techniques that bridge the gap between fine arts, literature, design and comics, the autobiographical storyline evolved into a work of art that transcends the visual diary. deu Diegesis -- 2195-2116 public https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess