{"id":35353,"date":"2026-04-25T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=35353"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:16:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:16:57","slug":"comic-therapy-meditations-for-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2026\/04\/25\/comic-therapy-meditations-for-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Therapy – Meditations for Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Kay Medaglia<\/strong> (SelfMadeHero)
\nISBN: 978-1-914224-39-3 (pocket HB)<\/p>\n

Author and graphic artist Kay Medaglia moved from Ontario, Canada to wild & woolly Reading in Britain nearly twenty years ago and ever since has sought ways to share their ideas of better living through enhanced wellbeing. In a prodigious outpouring of gently stated, multimedia-delivered suggestions, they have advocated calmer ways to get along and stay stable through such varied avenues as the UK small press scene; self-published sensation Wu Wei<\/strong>, and global arenas like The Huffington Post<\/strong> and Elephant Journal<\/strong>. As well as editing issues-based publications dealing with autism, dementia, mental health and sexual assault, their hugely successful One Year Wiser<\/strong> series has brought those notions to ever-wider audiences. They have even explored modern metaphysics with their bestselling Luna Sol Tarot<\/strong>.
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\nHere drawing together genteel humour, funny animals (and bugs, actually) and traditional philosophical observations lensed through practicality and common sense, Medaglia offers self-contained, image-led emotional pep-talks as Comic Therapy<\/strong>: spiritually enriching reminders of who and where you are – or could be. These graphic epigrams compile and project easily assimilable visual life-coaching and pictorial pick-me-ups, broaching topics from the minute and mundane to the cosmically crushing, or life-changing. As well as encouraging loving others and yourself, the image interludes especially confront themes of rejection, dejection, hopelessness, self-worth, self-compassion, resilience and mindfulness and lack of direction with breezy light humour and whimsy.<\/p>\n

Resembling still-running romance homily panel Love Is…<\/strong> (created by New Zealand cartoonist Kim Grove\/latterly Kim Casali) and delivered in Japan\u2019s popular Yonkoma manga<\/em> format, these four panel public service announcements for the soul are personal common sense messages from a global traveller seasoned with flavours of Hindu imagery and basic Buddhist tenets wedded to primal western gag delivery systems.<\/p>\n

Employing and urging the deployment of wit, patience, whatever faith or spirituality you can accept, and subtle but constant reminders that you don\u2019t have to wallow alone, this is a book that should perk up most moody buggers and provide a judgement free first nudge to fix whatever ails you from within and because You<\/em> want to…
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\nIf you can\u2019t actually hug a kitten or juggle ducklings in moments of crisis or despondency, dipping unto this handy pocket-sized package might just restore equilibrium and restart your jammed perspective generators…
\n\u00a9 Kay Medaglia, 2026. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

Today in 1915 Mort Weisinger<\/strong> was born, with Johnny Craig<\/strong> arriving in 1926 and Asterix<\/strong> co-creator Albert Uderzo<\/strong> coming one year later. In 1952 historian researcher and uberfan Peter Sanderson <\/strong>was born.<\/p>\n

In 1940 today Batman <\/strong>#1 went on sale. Four years later the utterly unique George<\/strong> (Krazy Kat<\/strong>) Herriman<\/strong> passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Kay Medaglia (SelfMadeHero) ISBN: 978-1-914224-39-3 (pocket HB) Author and graphic artist Kay Medaglia moved from Ontario, Canada to wild & woolly Reading in Britain nearly twenty years ago and ever since has sought ways to share their ideas of better living through enhanced wellbeing. In a prodigious outpouring of gently stated, multimedia-delivered suggestions, they … <\/p>\n

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