Charlie
Subtitle: a narrative portrait of Charles Lang
By: written and designed by Warren Lehrer ; [with original drawings by Charlie Lang].
Series: The portrait series
Publisher: Bay Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Lang, Charlie; Mentally ill -- New York (State) -- Biography; Musicians -- New York (State) -- Biography; Oral biography; Visual literature; New York (State) -- Biography
Description: Charlie is a gifted musician struggling to step outside the revolving door of a mental health industry that has defined and sustained him for over seventeen years. Walls are blank canvases for thoughts and images; silence gives birth to sheets of sound and song; daily events are charged with layers of reflective feeling.

This portrait of Charles Lang, illuminated by Lang's own drawings, chronicles the journey of an unrelenting, warm, funny, imaginative spirit in a world that too often rewards strength over sensitivity.