title: Losing Thomas & Ella: A Father's Story (A Research Comic).
abstract: "Losing Thomas & Ella" presents a research comic about one father's perinatal loss of twins. The comic recounts Paul's experience of the hospital and the babies' deaths, and it details the complex grieving process afterward, including themes of anger, distance, relationship stress, self-blame, religious challenges, and resignation. A methodological appendix explains the process of constructing the comic and provides a rationale for the use of comics-based research for illness, death, and grief among practitioners, policy makers, and the bereaved.
authors.affiliation: Educational Foundations and Research, University of North Dakota, 231 Centennial Drive, Stop 7189, Grand Forks, ND, 58202, USA. mwh@und.edu.
authors.forename: Marcus B
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1032-3757
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Weaver-Hightower
mesh_terms: D003643:Death; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology*; D000073924:Graphic Novels as Topic; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D033262:Narration; D066087:Perinatal Death; D036301:Qualitative Research; D050497:Stillbirth
keywords: Comics-based research; Fathers; Grief; Narrative research; Perinatal death; Qualitative research; Research comics; Sequential art; Stillbirth