Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on Jojo’s Not So Great Day,a new comic from clinical cartoonist Brian Narelle. About the Work Jojo’s Not So Great Day is the tale of a young firefly who misinterprets a friend’s indifference and starts down a negative spiral of beliefs, emotions and behavior…until she meets a Thinkafeeladoo who guides her to three islands, the Island of Think, the Island of Feel and the island of Do. It turns out all three islands are connected on the back of an angry dragon whose parents are getting… Read More
Illustrator Wanted: Children’s Book on Cell Biology
Garden Wolf Publishing is seeking an illustrator for Where Your Eyes Can’t Go, a rhyming children’s picture book by husband-and-wife co-authors, clinical pharmacologist Erica Winter and psychiatrist Eli Shalenberg. The book takes young readers on a journey to explore the human body (the heart, blood vessels, and cells), introducing basic cell biology in a way that’s fun and never dumbed down. Targeting ages 6–9. They’re looking for a textured, organic, and detailed style with an old-school aesthetic (think pencil or watercolor, though digital execution like Procreate is welcome) rather than flat, vector, or slick digital illustration. Scientific accuracy matters: they… Read More
Spotlight: “The Book Of Genocides” by Dana Walrath
September 8th marks the official release date of “The Book of Genocides,” the new graphic narrative by artist and anthropologist Dana Mashoian Walrath. As described on the publisher’s book site, “The Book of Genocides” is a stark, immersive graphic narrative that compels readers to confront some of the most devastating episodes in human history. Drawing on visual strategies from the disaster-comics tradition of Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman, Walrath traces ten genocides across five centuries—from the First Peoples of the Americas to the Rohingya in today’s Myanmar. These ten genocides have never before been chronicled together in this graphic form,… Read More
Spotlight: Dara the Warrior Princess
Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on a new comic inspired by multiple myeloma and the medication DARA, from Mark Phillips and collaborators. About the Work My sister has multiple myeloma and started taking the drug DARA in 2019. She and I had some interesting/fun conversation about her visualization of what DARA was doing for her, and one thing led to another, and I had a short comic book made for her, featuring DARA as the super-heroine. She loved it, her doctors at the Mayo Clinic loved it, and that is as… Read More
GMIC Board Welcomes Esther Saltzman and Gianna Paniagua
The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) is thrilled to announce the addition of two new members to its board: Esther Saltzman, PhD, is the Nursing Liaison for GMIC. Through graphic medicine, she has been able to combine her background in nursing with her teaching of literature. She has taught graphic medicine classes through the English Departments at the Memphis College of Art and at California State University, Los Angeles. She is the co-editor of Drawn from the Classics, Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literary Works, and has written on comics and nursing in the Journal of Radiology Nursing. While at… Read More
A Thank You to Ebru Ustundag and Matthew Noe
As Ebru Ustundag and Matthew Noe conclude their terms on the board of the Graphic Medicine International Collective, GMIC would like to extend its immense thanks for their invaluable leadership, contributions, time, and expertise Ebru Ustundag Serving as Co-Chair for the past three years, Ebru has been a vital guiding force, steering the organization with grace and vision through a pivotal era of expansion and evolution. Ebru brought her invaluable perspective as a critical feminist geographer to the heart of GMIC. Her deep commitment to the intersections of health, care, and social justice profoundly influenced how our organization operates and… Read More
Anatomy of a Graphic Medicine Conference, by Sal Marx
Artist and 2026 Burns Scholarship recipient Sal Marx brings us “Anatomy of a Graphic Medicine Conference,” a comic recap of their experiences from the 2026 Graphic Medicine Conference.
Spotlight: Cerebral Palsy Comic
Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on a new comic story about cerebral palsy from Shanara Curtis. About the Work This project was a university project for year 2 . We were given a chance to negotiate a live brief. At first I had a bit of trouble coming up with an idea. However I had just come off of a group project about helping people understand dementia (particularly children) and found it a very interesting and insightful project. So i decided what if I can do the same thing for cerebral… Read More
Spotlight: New Musical Imagery Project
Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on a new musical imagery project from artist Jim Medway About the Work I’ve recently completed a set of illustrations and short sequential illustrations commissioned by music psychologist Dr Dawn Rose of Hochschule Lucerne Musik in Switzerland, to complement her Playlist4Parkinson’s initiative. Research has found various positive aspects to the strategy of imagining music to assist with challenges faced by people with Parkinson’s. The images are intended to help interpret and share her research in an accessible non-academic format. I was asked to address various aspects… Read More
Spotlight: The OVER(….) Project
Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on a new graphic memoir from Jason Robert LeClair about being a late-diagnosed ADHD adult. About the Work Fifteen years ago, at the age of thirty-six, I had my first diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It would take that decade and a half for me to feel comfortable enough to approach it as an artist. There was something about turning fifty that pushed me to look at what it is like to be a late-diagnosed ADHD adult. As an educator for the last twenty-six years,… Read More
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