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French Elle editor who dictated a landmark memoir one eyelid blink at a time. A memento mori obituary comic centered on 1995 stroke causing locked-in syndrome before he dictated The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by blinking.

Citable Summary

Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952–1997) is featured in an obituary comic about mortality, work, and what remains.
The comic centers on this mortality event: 1995 stroke causing locked-in syndrome before he dictated The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by blinking.
The reader version includes image pages, a PDF, and sources including Bookreporter; Guardian; Britannica.

Story Notes

This comic follows Jean-Dominique Bauby, French Elle editor who dictated a landmark memoir one eyelid blink at a time.

The story turns on 1995 stroke causing locked-in syndrome before he dictated The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by blinking, treating that encounter with death as the pressure point for the work that followed.

The source trail for this page includes Bookreporter; Guardian; Britannica.

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