Frida Kahlo - The Broken Mirror

Page 1 of Frida Kahlo: The Broken Mirror - Opening page introducing Frida Kahlo and the broken-mirror frame of the comic.
Opening page introducing Frida Kahlo and the broken-mirror frame of the comic.
Page 2 of Frida Kahlo: The Broken Mirror - Kahlo's early life and the turn from medical ambition toward a body marked by injury.
Kahlo's early life and the turn from medical ambition toward a body marked by injury.
Page 3 of Frida Kahlo: The Broken Mirror - The 1925 collision becomes the central mortality event of the story.
The 1925 collision becomes the central mortality event of the story.
Page 4 of Frida Kahlo: The Broken Mirror - Recovery narrows the room but gives the mirror and canvas new force.
Recovery narrows the room but gives the mirror and canvas new force.
Page 5 of Frida Kahlo: The Broken Mirror - Self-portraiture becomes a way to record pain, identity, and survival without softening them.
Self-portraiture becomes a way to record pain, identity, and survival without softening them.
Page 6 of Frida Kahlo: The Broken Mirror - Kahlo's work grows from private injury into a public visual language.
Kahlo's work grows from private injury into a public visual language.
Page 7 of Frida Kahlo: The Broken Mirror - The body remains damaged, but the paintings keep arguing with disappearance.
The body remains damaged, but the paintings keep arguing with disappearance.
Page 8 of Frida Kahlo: The Broken Mirror - Closing page on what survived Kahlo: images that made pain impossible to ignore.
Closing page on what survived Kahlo: images that made pain impossible to ignore.
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Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor, and founder of logotherapy.

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