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Dancing After TEN

Dancing After TEN

by Vivian Chong; Georgia Webber

Fantagraphics ·2020 ·162 pages
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About This Book

In late 2004, Vivian Chong's life was changed forever when a rare skin disease, Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN), left her with scar tissue that would eventually blind her. As she was losing her sight, she put down as many drawings on paper as she could to document the experience. In Dancing After TEN, Chong teams up with cartoonist Georgia Webber—whose graphic autobiography, Dumb, chronicled her own disability—to trace her journey out of the darkness and into the spotlight.


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"Its unusual and fascinating process of collaboration distinguishes Dancing After TEN."

Hillary Chute· The New York Times Read review ↗ Near the Top

"A prime example of the graphic medicine genre, which illustrates medical conditions, often through lived experience, this work is engaging and informative but never feels teachy or preachy."

Emilia Packard· Library Journal Read review ↗ Top of the Pile

"Readers interested in disability and/or graphic medicine will value this work."

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"The process behind this collaborative graphic memoir by Chong and Webber...is as noteworthy as its unusual illness narrative, even if the life lessons imparted by Chong don't quite land ..."

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