Brent Williams and Korkut Öztekin Educational Resources Ltd, 2017, HB, 160pp, £19.95, 978-0473390068
Starting with a quote from Dante’s The Divine Comedy that sets the theme and lends the book both its title and central metaphor, Brent Williams’s graphic novel Out of the Woods describes his journey through depression and anxiety, and back to health, illustrated wonderfully by Korkut Öztekin’s masterful draftsmanship.
In middle age, the author, a community lawyer and filmmaker, unexpectedly finds himself in a deep depression. It takes some convincing from …