A Tragedy in Two Parts

Funny Animal Genre

Justin Greene's Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary

Create common bonds of understanding and

humanity

Express faith in an ultimate universal understanding

Attribute to that understanding

Functions of Testimony

Narrator and subject are not the same

Refuses any claims to a "having been there" truth

Autographer is both victim of trauma and detached observer

Questions nature of truth: both inauthentic and necessary

Graphic Autobiography

Unrealistic

Art Cannot Avoid the Truth

The Panel/Page = Suitcase

What Can’t Be Told

No Closure

Repeating Past Traumas

Collecting the Past

Fragmentation