Even Walter doesn’t know, and he’s really smart.
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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…
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…
