Lighter Than My Shadow is a hand-drawn story of struggle and recovery, a trip into the black heart of a taboo illness, an exposure of those who are so weak they prey on the weak, and an inspiration to anybody who believes in the human power to endure towards happiness. · Lighter than my Shadow opens with an adult Katie Green putting pen to paper, indicating her intention to translate her traumatic childhood to the comic’s page. The reader then meets a very young version of Katie who is sitting at the dinner table poking and prodding at her food. This is where Katie’s strained relationship with food bltadwin.ru: Mlis Joseph H. Richard Iii. Lighter Than My Shadow is Katie Green’s story of her life with anorexia. As a kid, she had the typical struggles with her family over finishing dinner and changing tastes. She was an artist from a young age, spending time alone in her imagination/5().
Katie Green is an artist and illustrator living in the south west of England. She studied for a degree in biology before specialising in illustration and going on to create Lighter Than My Shadow, which is her first book. She publishes a bi-monthly zine, The Green Bean, and shares snippets of her other projects on her website, bltadwin.ru Book review: "Lighter Than My Shadow" by Katie Green (graphic novel) November 17, Lighter Than My Shadow is a hand-drawn story of struggle and recovery, a trip into the black heart of a taboo illness, an exposure of those who are so weak as to prey on the vulnerable, and an inspiration to anybody who believes in the human power to endure. Lighter Than My Shadow is a hand-drawn story of struggle and recovery, a trip into the black heart of a taboo illness, an exposure of those who are so weak they prey on the weak, and an inspiration to anybody who believes in the human power to endure towards happiness. First published in the UK in October by Jonathan Cape.
Lighter than my Shadow opens with an adult Katie Green putting pen to paper, indicating her intention to translate her traumatic childhood to the comic’s page. The reader then meets a very young version of Katie who is sitting at the dinner table poking and prodding at her food. This is where Katie’s strained relationship with food begins. London: Jonathan Cape, , pp. £ paper. At first glance, British comics artist Katie Green’s Lighter Than My Shadow seems to join an established tradition of autobiographical memoirs about anorexia, sometimes referred to as “treatment texts.”1 Critics have expressed uneasiness about whether this genre not-so-inadvertently. Lighter Than My Shadow is Katie Green’s story of her life with anorexia. As a kid, she had the typical struggles with her family over finishing dinner and changing tastes. She was an artist from a young age, spending time alone in her imagination.
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