I won an Inkpot Award at the San Diego Comicon in July, and the trophy is totally adorable:<\/p>\n
I interviewed the charming and wildly popular Allie Brosh (“Hyperbole and a Half”<\/a>) at Bumbershoot in Aug.:<\/p>\n PsychCentral interviewed me for an article in Dec., descriptively titled\u00a0“The Biggest Lesson I’ve Learned in Managing My Bipolar Disorder.”\u00a0<\/a>Not my main point but here is one thing: treats. I still hate blood draws even after all these years, so I’ve started buying myself a fancy matcha tea drink afterwards, and it’s done wonders. I even found myself happily thinking about my tea drink as I was walking to the lab a couple months ago. Success!<\/p>\n The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a\u00a0full-page interview<\/a>\u00a0in Dec. as the end of a yearlong series about mental illness.<\/p>\n I’ll be a keynote speaker at the 2014 Comics & Medicine Conference<\/a> at Johns Hopkins. Very very excited!!<\/p>\n Another talk in a medical context: a symposium at George Washington University<\/a>\u00a0in April 2014, “examining the fraught relationship between the diagnostic work of the medical industry and the embodied lives of disabled people.”<\/p>\n Another talk in April 2014: part of “Compulsive Narratives: The Graphic Novel as Confession and Inspiration,”<\/a> an exhibit at Rutgers-Camden University, which includes a bunch of Marbles<\/em> originals and an installation that looks like a psychiatrist’s office, with my sketchbooks and pills scattered on the floor.<\/p>\n Right now I’m working on a comic for The Stranger<\/em><\/a> about a disastrous attempt to make a nice dinner for my sweetheart, the murals for the Sound Transit light rail station<\/a>, teaching “Graphic Novels as Literature” and “Comics: Essential Tools” at Cornish College of the Arts, a couple of private commissions, and….. a new book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are some recent things! Like, some things since… July! At the end of my Artist in Residency at Town Hall last fall, Scholar in Residence David Montgomery\u00a0and I gave a presentation about how a cartoonist and a geologist spin our nonfiction material into stories. It was fun, it went great! Here is a video … Continue reading “A Little Ketchup”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"cci2013_inkpot_forney_go\"](\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cci2013_inkpot_forney_go-233x300.jpg\")
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