Dispatches from Graphic Medicine Europe: Amsterdam & Rotterdam 2026  guest post by Kimberly Myers & Olesya Vynnyk Kimberly Myers: Our Graphic Medicine community is the professional space where I feel most at home. An academic, creative, whole-person-health-centered synergy quickens those of us who gather around this transdisciplinary work, project after project, year after year. We are an archly productive lot! While our professional achievements are indeed impressive, it is, however, the democratic spirit that I find most rewarding of all.  As Ian Williams reminded us in his keynote for the inaugural Graphic Medicine Europe conference in the Netherlands, the heart… Read More

Last year, cartoonist and educator Lynda Barry shared her experiences of Sudden Sensorineuronal Hearing Loss (SSHL) with us via a series of printable, full-color  zines. For a recent exhibit, she created a zine to update us on her hearing situation one year after the initial loss. Following the individual pages of the zine below is a formatted, printable page.  

guest post by Louise Dickinson, Founder and Artistic Director of Alchemise Theatre www.alchemisetheatre.co.uk/ louise@alchemisetheatre.co.uk Alchemise Theatre are an arts and health charity creating projects that seek to improve wellbeing for all.  We believe in the power of daring to hope. We believe that making art can bring light to difficult times, transforming them into something luminous. Louise, our Founder and Artistic Director formed the charity as she emerged from her (now) six year long battle with Long Covid.  Having experienced first hand the isolating impact of this gruelling illness Louise wanted to offer some respite, and a place to connect… Read More

Ariya Desai is a high school student with a passion for health education, the empowerment of the South Asian community, and using creative storytelling to make complex medical topics more accessible. Through her graphic story, she explores why South Asian populations face a higher risk of developing diabetes.

The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) is thrilled to announce the winners of  the 2026 GMIC Awards!!! The winners in each of three categories of the 2026 Graphic Medicine International Collective Awards were announced on Saturday, July 25th, 2026, at the GMIC annual conference in Baltimore. You can read about each of the shortlisted works in each category here. These awards are made possible by your donations and a generous matching gift in Honor of Nancy and Herbert Wolf. The matching gift is intended to honor and carry on Nancy and Herbert’s legacy of service and care. You can contribute to… Read More

“Trump’s War on Cancer Patients,” was born out of the GMIC Athlone Conference where Ryan Montoya and Adam Bessie first met. This concise comic explores Adam’s experience with his current brain cancer, which has returned since Trump came back to power. In this time, he’s been fighting to survive – chemo, radiation, and awake surgery – while at the same time the Trump administration has fought to take away the very treatments that keep him, and other cancer patients like him, alive.     Adam Bessie had an awake brain surgery a few months ago and is now on chemotherapy. … Read More

I am an ECFMG-certified physician and medical illustrator with a passion for using visual storytelling to make medicine more approachable and memorable. My work uses character-based visual mnemonics as cognitive hooks to help medical students understand complex concepts across different areas of medicine. I also create medical illustrations designed to support patient education and make difficult medical concepts easier to understand. Since my original Spotlight, I have continued developing my character-based medical illustration work and have expanded beyond cardiopathology. I am now developing a series of visual mnemonics across different areas of medicine, including nephrology, hepatology, and fetal circulation.  Nida… Read More