Just so you know I’m not just spinning my wheels on this book thing, here’s a new version of the comic you might remember from here. I’m redoing a lot of the old Freeman comics. I hope you don’t prefer[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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If I want to be taken seriously as a lobotomy cartoonist I really should communicate with the living Freemans, but it’s hard to know how to couch my request. It’s nothing they haven’t heard before, of course—except for the part[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Except for how he wasn’t. This will be toward the beginning of that thing I persist in referring to as “the book.”
I know I should draw more comics about Walter Freeman and maybe fewer comics about the weird psychodrama in my head featuring Walter Freeman, but I get these notions and I have to express them, which I suppose is the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This will get longer for the book, naturally. Judging from the El-Hai biography, most of the things people said to Walter Freeman were exhortations beginning with his name, like “Walter, you can’t say that!” or “Walter, at least let me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The idea that Walter lobotomized Miss Farmer was popularized by the movie Frances, in which she gets it in the eye from a bald and goateed doctor who talks about “his†transorbital procedure and is obviously supposed to be Freeman.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sorry, Phineas phans — there’s no evidence that his extraordinary case had any effect on the history of psychosurgery. There is sufficient evidence, however, that he was hot.
Hey look, the worst most offensive joke I have ever made and I put it in the mouth of the dead guy who can’t sue me for libel. As you can tell from the fact that Walter and I are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Egas Moniz, inventor of the lobotomy, suffered terribly from gout in his hands, which became gnarled and swollen and frequently had to be bandaged. (You can get a glimpse of one in this picture.) Sometimes he’d be in so much[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
