A ‘graphic memoir’ about brothers’ shared experiences with schizophrenia
Two of Clem Martini’s brothers have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. One is Ben, the youngest. The other is Olivier, or Liv, an artist. Olivier illustrates this graphic memoir with a subtle hand…his side in a long conversation, spanning some 30 years, with his brother Clem, a Calgary playwright.
Bitter Medicine graphically and artistically captures the fears and frustrations that all too often accompany the devastation caused by schizophrenia for those living with the illness and their family members, according to Chris Summerville of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada.
We speak with Clem Martini about his, and Olivier’s, book—Bitter Medicine—and the experiences that led to its writing.
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