FUMS 118 - Comic Artist and MSer Brooke Pelczynski's Perfect, Shitty Situation
FUMS: Giving Multiple Sclerosis The Finger
English - November 01, 2022 11:00 - 25 minutes - 17.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Alternative Health patient advocacy autoimmune disease autoimmune offscrip healthcare wellness medicine health multiple sclerosis medical Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Brooke Pelczynski's life with Multiple Sclerosis is an inspiring example of someone taking their diagnosis and turning it into something great. Most recently, her varied career has led to her working for Marvel Comics!
Brooke was undertaking her BFA in Illustration in New York when the fatigue and clumsiness that resulted in a number of ruined artworks was diagnosed as Multiple Sclerosis - at the age of only 21. Although she now feels that MS had crippled her career, Brooke has since used her disease to build a career as an artist, illustrator, and comic-creating multiple sclerosis fighter!
As well as her full-time role providing illustrations for MultipleSclerosis.net, her work - in a variety of forms - has been featured by a variety of clients and publications including Yahoo, Momentum Magazine, Hotel Indigo, Lifewire, and many more. Brooke also worked as a story consultant for Marvel's Darkhawk comic series, using her experiences to inform the title character's own journey toward an MS diagnosis.
Topics covered in this episode include:
Brooke's life before her diagnosis with MS aged only 21How, after feeling like MS had crippled her life as an artist, Brooke was able to use comic art to build her careerThe way that Brooke's work for MultipleSclerosis.net fits around her "Perfect, shitty situation" - and how she always strives to remain creative, even on her worst MS days (MSiest?)How she got involved as a story advisor for Marvel's Darkhawk comicsFull show notes and resources at https://fumsnow.com/fums118/