Overview
""Funny and informative, Jade effortlessly hits the sweet spot between silly and sincere to deliver a delightful treat despite its heavy topic. Grab a snack, a drink and definitely grabFood School!"" Hana Chatani, author ofGive Her Back To Me A twenty-something college dropout enrols in a full-time outpatient program for eating disorder recovery. As they change their relationship with food, their relationships with people change, too. Olive's post-secondary education isn't what they'd planned. Instead of college, they spend five days a week, eight hours a day at what Olive calls ""Food School"": a full-time outpatient program for eating disorder recovery where they learn, talk, and cry about eating disorders as part of a survivor support group. Intensely committed to recovery, Olive confronts the secretive, self-destructive, and sometimes tragically comedic nature of their illness, while struggling with the complexities of modern mental health care. With support and perspective from their roommate, a fellow patient, and their partner, Olive learns to open up about their abusive relationship with food and exercise-and finds ways to cope with the reality of living in a society that actively encourages disordered eating. In this fictional slice of life comic, Jade Armstrong (Scout Is Not a Band Kid) explores the ways our relationships with food impact our connections with the people we love.
Full Product Details
Author: Jade Armstrong
Publisher: Conundrum Press
Imprint: Conundrum Press
ISBN: 9781772620962
ISBN 10: 1772620963
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 06 June 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""The energetic and emotional drawings in Food School depict Olive's complex journey of healing from an eating disorder in a delightful but also devastating way. Food School is an excellent example of how comics can be used to both educate and entertain. It's a book I want to give to everyone to read."" – Saicoink, author of Open Spaces, Closed Places ""Funny and informative, Jade effortlessly hits the sweet spot between silly and sincere to deliver a delightful treat despite its heavy topic. Grab a snack, a drink and definitely grab Food School!"" – Hana Chatani, author of Give Her Back To Me ""Jade Armstrong is a slice-of-life master, finding the joy, beauty, and heartbreak in the way we tend to our one of our most intimate needs - nourishment, be it emotional or physical. Always funny, always real, I loved Food School so much."" – Nadia Shammas, co-author of Squire ""Food School is funny, incisive and smart; a capsule of modern womanhood, and the sometimes complicated relationship we have with our bodies and food."" – Lucie Byron, author of Thieves"
"""Employing rounded, fluid linework reminiscent of Heartstopper, and introducing the school’s variously diverse characters via character sheets, which detail pronouns and stats, debut creator Armstrong excels at portraying characters’ expressive reactions, for example Scout’s mortification at accidentally throwing her trombone’s sleeve during a concert.""—Publishers Weekly on Scout is Not a Band Kid"
Author Information
Jade Armstrong is a non-binary Canadian graphic novelist and member of the comics collective Hello Boyfriend. They like to write slice of life, humour, and YA comics. Candied ginger is their favourite snack.
