![]() Shot through with wry humour and unapologetic in its politics, Bitter Medicine is the story of the Martini family, a polemical and poetic portrait of illness, and a vital and timely call for action. The result is a layered family memoir that faces head-on the stigma attached to mental illness. ![]() In Bitter Medicine, Olivier's poignant graphic narrative runs alongside and communicates with a written account of the past three decades by his younger brother, award-winning author and playwright Clem Martini. His sketches, comic strips, and portraits document his experience with, and capture the essence of, this all too frequently misunderstood disease. Throughout it all, Olivier, an accomplished visual artist, drew. The Unravelling: How our caregiving safety net came unstrung and we were left grasping at threads, struggling to plait a new one is written by Clem Martini and published by Freehand Books. ![]() For the past thirty years the Martini family has struggled to comprehend and cope with a devastating illness, frustrated by a health care system lacking in resources and empathy, the imperfect science of medication, and the strain of mental illness on familial relationships. ![]() ![]() A decade later, his brother Olivier was told he had the same disease. In 1976, Ben Martini was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Professor Clem Martini is an award winning playwright, novelist, and screenwriter with over thirty plays, and ten books of fiction and nonfiction to his credit, including the Calgary Book Award-winning Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness and his most recent anthology, Martini With A Twist. ![]()
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