This Visible Voices podcast, hosted by Resa Lewiss, MD, focuses on health, equity, and trends in medicine. Graphic Medicine has been the topic of two recent episodes. Click on the images below to listen to each episode. Thank you to Resa for featuring the work of Graphic Medicine! Ian Williams and Shirlene Obuobi were in conversation in episode 37. MK Czerwiec and Mike Natter were in conversation in episode 48.

LITERATURE AND MEDICINE : CALL FOR COMICS “RUBBISH” Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2022 Comics Editor: MK Czerwiec This issue of Literature and Medicine will interrogate expressions of hunger and waste in both literary and biomedical contexts. The issue’s Front Matter will feature essays, comics, and artwork that responds to the word rubbish. We welcome comics that address or engage with it as  a noun, verb, or adjective, or something else entirely.  Submissions that invite or challenge readers to see rubbish in unexpected ways are especially welcome. Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship that explores representational and… Read More

Guest post by Martin Eden  First up, a little bit of background about myself. I was always a nervous person when I was growing up – a worrier. I was often held back by my nerves or a lack of confidence, and this translated in my 20s into various anxiety-related problems like general pains around my body which resulted in various trips to the doctors/hospitals. And then things went downhill.  I was in my late 20s, living in London, and I just couldn’t get to sleep one night. My mind was whirling but also my chest felt really tight, and then… Read More

Lulu How Do You?  How Do You What?  Be Good  to Your Gut! Ask Lulu!   Using her newly found Magic Word, Lulu dreams that she’s right back inside herself- asking organs Louie Liver, Pammy Pancreas, and the Kidney Brothers, as well as her microbe friends, Abby Acidophilus and Benny Bifidus:   “What are your favorite and least favorite foods?” They give her the answers- all in rhymes!  Then Stanley Stem Cell again takes her back through the circulation system- giving her more valuable info. She returns to her bed and explains all to her mom who exclaims, “Your dreams are… Read More

We cordially invite chapter proposals and art submissions for an edited book entitled ‘Queering Nutrition and Dietetics: LGBTQ+ Reflections on Food Through Art’.  The book will bring the voices of LGBTQ+ people front and center through the chapters and art submissions and will contribute to experiential learning, allowing for more understanding of the lives of LGBTQ+ peoples relating to food and nutrition. Submissions will be selected for their originality, creativity, and potential to expand knowledge and practice in health professions. The book will give readers, health professions, health educators, and heath students the opportunity to better understand the health and wellbeing… Read More

As you may remember from our previous post, Center for Cartoon Studies co-founder James Sturm has been working with a team of Harvard students and scholars, Kazimir Lee, and Sam Nakahira on a 32-page comic about the US healthcare system. This work is part of his Radcliffe Fellowship. Health and Wealth, A Graphic Guide to the US Healthcare System is being created to help the general public better understand how the US healthcare system works in hopes that it will generate discussions around healthcare and healthcare reform. A digital version of the comic book and a study/engagement guide will be available… Read More

Ilana Zeffren’s Urban Tails hits Kickstarter Collected for the first time in English, the autobiographical comics are a charming, insightful look at LGBT+ life in Tel Aviv. Beginning in 2006, Ilana Zeffren has chronicled her life as a weekly newspaper comic strip.  Urban Tails brings these strips together in English for the first time, presenting a 200+ page collection which is down to earth, honest, and provides a gentle look into the lives of Ilana, her girlfriend, and their two cats. Addressing subjects as diverse as mental health and the proliferation of crocs (shoes), Zeffren brings a fresh perspective and… Read More

As part of a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, Center for Cartoon Studies co-founder James Sturm has been working with a team of Harvard students and scholars, Kazimir Lee, and Sam Nakahira on a 32-page comic about the US healthcare system. They have granted us here at Graphic Medicine the exclusive reveal of their cover! Health and Wealth, A Graphic Guide to the US Healthcare System is being created to help the general public better understand how the US healthcare system works in hope it generates discussions around healthcare and healthcare reform. A digital version of the comic book and a study/engagement… Read More