I write comics in collaboration with cartoonists, which have been published in The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The Los … More
Author: adambessie
Episode 2: Going the Social Distance (illustrated by Max Rodriguez)
Day 3 of Lockdown, after a full 7 hours remote teaching in my garage classroom. Read with Cake’s Going the … More
New Strip: Teaching Live in Lockdown Nation (with Max Rodriguez)
EPISODE #1: Face/Off Please stay tuned right after this comic for a reflection on how a whole nation’s teachers are … More
My Teens in Comics: The Rise of Graphic Journalism, Graphic Medicine & My Top Ten Toons.
Journalism will again become what it was more than a century ago – a form of art. –Chris Hedges The … More
Collected Comix 2012 – 2019
Book-length graphic memoir in progress: It’s All In Your Head: A Decade of Living With Brain Cancer (with Marc Parenteau). … More
My Collected Comix Journalism
Here are my current works of graphic journalism and memoir which have appeared in The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The San … More
The Perfect Cancer Patient – EXTRA SCENE!
Here is an EXTRA SCENE from my comicTHE PERFECT CANCER PATIENT (with co-author medical sociologist Gayle Sulik and co-author/illustrator Marc Parenteau). This … More
The MAGAchurian President
Tales from the Alt-Fright Words: Adam Bessie Illustration: Max Rodriguez (http://maddogdraws.tumblr.com) Concept: Sol (5 years old)
Election PTSD (President Trump Stress Disorder)
By Adam Bessie and Illustrated by Jason Novak
Morning in America, 2016
Original Panorama Illustration by Jason Novak Concept by Adam Bessie & Jason Novak
Adam Bessie 