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This speculative article considers women’s graphic memoirs as a potential model for an emergent body of post-pandemic literature. Women’s graphic memoirs offer resonant possibilities for helping readers to reckon with grief because of their unique ability to make loss visible on the page. The article approaches Roz Chast’s graphic memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? as a pre-pandemic text that uses visual hyperbole to represent failures of the eldercare system and burdens on female caregivers that were exacerbated during the pandemic. It analyzes Connie Sun’s webcomics as an unfolding online diary of pandemic anxieties amid a xenophobic backlash against Asian Americans. Women’s graphic memoirs overspill cultural boundaries forbidding mourning and suggest possible directions for post-pandemic literature.

Loss Made Visible: Women’s Graphic Memoirs and the Boundlessness of Grief