Emily Steinberg, MFA, is the Artist in Residence at Drexel College of Medicine in Philadelphia and a lecturer in fine art at Penn State Abington. We are thrilled to excerpt her newest piece, Mid-Century Hipster here on Graphic Medicine. With her glorious color palette and keen observational eye, Emily shares her hip replacement surgery experience in comic form. Click through at the end of these images to read the full comic on Cleaver Magazine. The “prequel” to this piece will appear in the upcoming anthology Menopause: A Comic Treatment (Penn State University Press, 2020). READ THE REST OF THE STORY,… Read More
New Podcast: A. David Lewis on Creating a Graphic Medicine Course at Your College
A. David Lewis shares his lecture from the 2019 New England Graphic Medicine Comic-Con, titled “Creating a Graphic Medicine Course at Your College.” Speaker bio: (adapted from David’s website): A. David Lewis holds a Ph.D. in Religion & Literature from Boston University and an M.A. in English Literature from Georgetown University. He started lecturing on comics as well as writing short back-up stories for various anthologies in 1999. Critically praised for his creative work in independent comics (including the biblical Lone and Level Sands and Some New Kind of Slaughter), Lewis has been featured in The Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly… Read More
New Podcast Episode: Rachel Lindsay on Rx
With great thanks to A. David Lewis, Matthew Noe, and Rachel, we are able to share the full lecture given by Rachel Lindsay about creating her graphic memoir Rx as a Graphic Medicine podcast. A few links: Rachel’s website: http://www.rachellivesherenow.com/about A. David Lewis’s twitter thread of the talk available here. Jane Zhao’s review of Rx on Intima here: http://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/rx-a-graphic-memoir-by-rachel-lindsay
New Podcast: Reconciling the Public and Private in Health Comics with Whit Taylor
The episode opens with Alice Jaggers and host MK Czerwiec discussing Graphic Medicine News. That segment is followed by Whit Taylor‘s keynote address from the 2018 Comics & Medicine conference in White River Junction, Vermont. NOTE: The comics Whit mentions are linked below. Whit is a cartoonist, writer, editor, and public health educator. She has a BA in cultural anthropology from Brown University and received an MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Boston University School of Public Health. Her comics have been published by The Nib, The New Yorker, Illustrated PEN and others. America Isn’t Ready For a Pandemic, The… Read More
“Scaling Up Graphic Medicine” – Susan Squier’s 2018 Conference Keynote Address
This month’s episode features Susan Squier’s full keynote from this year’s Graphic Medicine conference at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Her talk is titled “Graphic Medicine: The Scales of Comics Work.” You will hear Susan introduced by Juliet McMullin. The images Susan cites directly in her talk follow below, in order. Stay tuned to the end of Susan’s talk for a special announcement! Support for this podcast comes from Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Humanities, the nation’s oldest Humanities Department within a medical school, pioneers of innovations in medical education since 1967. To learn… Read More
Happy New Year: Some Thoughts on Self-Care from Katie Green
Katie Green (Lighter Than My Shadow) shared this comic on Instagram and I (MK) found it so helpful and insightful that I asked her to share it with the Graphic Medicine community. She was kind enough to oblige by sending her original files. May your 2019 be full of self care.
New Podcast: 2018 Graphic Medicine Year in Review
In this last GM podcast episode of 2018, Matthew Noe and MK Czerwiec discuss the Graphic Medicine year in review and they look forward to 2019. Listen to the episode to hear our picks for notable books of 2018, highlights of 2018, and what we are looking forward to in 2019. Links promised in the episode: Call for Papers, 2019 Graphic Medicine conference, Brighton Medicina Gráfica Congress video on YouTube National Library of Medicine Graphic Medicine exhibit information and exhibit locator. Interview with Hey, Kiddo creator Jarret Krosoczka on Fresh Air with Terri Gross Support for this podcast comes from… Read More
New Podcast: Mental Health Comics
This month’s episode features a recording of the Mental Health Comics Panel from MICE 2018, Moderated by A. David Lewis, MCPHS University. Panelists include: Lucy Bellwood – 100 Demon Dialogues Kevin Budnik – Handbook LB Lee – MPD for You & Me Robyn Smith – Saddest, Angriest Black Girl in Town (also see this site.) Rachel Lindsay – Rx (also see this article.) Also relevant to this episode, quoting Matthew Noe’s This Week in Graphic Medicine, please note this Call for Papers: Invisible Made Visible: Comics and Mental Illness, to be edited by Leah Misemer & Jessica Gross. Matthew writes,… Read More
Graphic Medicine at Reimagine NYC 2018
Reimagine End of Life New York, the week-long series of events exploring big questions of life and death, is in the books. In bringing the series to New York from San Francisco, organizers hoped for 75 or so successful events. There were over 350, and Graphic Medicine was the focus of a few. Running the entire week was an exhibit of comic art at the 53rd Street New York Public Library, which had two components. Upstairs at the branch was “Death Panels: Comics That Help Us Face End of Life.” The exhibit featured art from Roz Chast, Ben Schwartz, Thi Bui,… Read More
Listen to the Doctors: Graphic Medicine in Taiwan
guest post by Pin-chia Feng, Chair Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Director at the Asian American Studies Research Center of National Chiao Tung University in Hsin-chu. Pin-chia is also a Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan and Editor-in-Chief of the Review of English and American Literature. There is a long history of Taiwanese medical professionals engaging in creative writing; the creation of graphic narratives, however, is a relatively unknown genre of creative writing among the island’s healthcare providers. While there were Taiwanese doctors and medical students creating comics as a… Read More
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