Sliding into: Biographical Media

The editorial explores biographical media as a lens for understanding identity, memory, and childhood. By linking family archives with digital narratives, it highlights how storytelling mediates cultural self-representation, empathy, and historical interpretation, emphasizing the evolving impact of digital archives on personal and collective memory.

It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth (2023) is an autobiographical comic by Zoe Thorogood that made her a 6-times nominee for an Eisner Award. In this review, I discuss the relevance in her depictions of mental health and selfhood within her autobiography.

In this read-aloud we share with you the story of the legendary ballerina Anna Pavlova. Laurel Synder and Julie Morstad brought Anna’s story to life with their poetic words and beautiful illustrations in the picturebook Swan (2015). Come join us in learning about a young girl determined to share the beauty of ballet with the whole world.  

I Swear (2025) explores the life of John Davidson, a Scottish man who, in his teenage years, developed Tourette’s Syndrome. This motor disorder was widely unknown in the 1980s, and so he had to endure the consequences of ignorance and lack of social and structural support. Through an emotional lens, the movie invites the audience to reflect on the importance of education, inclusion and humanity in our communities.

Chamblain and Neyret’s Les Carnets de Cerise playfully includes a fictional diary as a storytelling tool. This review delves into the characteristics of the diary and how these are utilized in the comic.