The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC), a not-for-profit organization with the mission to guide and support the uses of comics in health, will open the 2026 award submissions on January 2, 2026.  These awards recognize and honor outstanding health-related comic projects published or completed in 2025. They are made possible by your donations with a generous matching gift in Honor of Nancy and Herbert Wolf.  Details about previous GMIC Awards can be found here. To ensure you have the latest news about the award process, be sure to subscribe to our weekly e-newsletter.

The Drawing Together community gathered on Zoom October 26, 2025. Our host was Ebru Ustundag. Ebru is a critical feminist geographer who examines the intersections of health care and social justice. She is an Associate Professor of Geography at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, and a member of the graduate faculty in the interdisciplinary Social Justice and Equity Studies MA program. Ebru co-chairs the Graphic Medicine International Collective Board and serves as a co-editor of the journal ACME: International Journal of Critical Geographies. Our Drawing Together topic was acoustic geographies. Per Ebru, “Acoustic geographies refer to the study of sound… Read More

This month’s Drawing Together will take place on Sunday, November 23rd. It’s a week early due to a schedule conflict. Our session will be hosted by MK Czerwiec, picking up where she left off in our October session. We will adapt a “filter comic” while revisit the annual theme of GRATITUDE. If you are not on the email invitation list, and want to participate, sign up here.

by Jeannie Mecorney Last week, I had the opportunity to speak at the National Advocates on Mental Illness (NAMI) California Conference in Sacramento.  As the Graphic Medicine and Mental Health Liaison, my goal was to introduce attendees to the world of graphic medicine and invite them to “draw their own stories”—the title of my presentation—by creating personal zines about their mental health journeys. I began by sharing my own story of childhood trauma, growing up with an abusive father who was also diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. From there, I introduced the concept of graphic medicine—the intersection between comics and the… Read More

guest post by Janet Chan, Melinda H. Berg, Krystal Bullers, and Tsu Yin Lue This spotlight features an original research article sparked by  a desire to justify the creation of a graphic medicine collection at an academic health sciences library. Faced with a format that was new to our library and a noticeable gap in the literature, we rolled up our sleeves and dug into the data to explore how academic health sciences libraries were curating graphic medicine. Armed with online catalogs, data collection tools, and a shared love of comics in healthcare, we became the Librarian League!  Our article,… Read More

from Eric Cheng, on behalf of the Baturu Cultural Festival, an independent nonprofit based in Thailand that connects artists and activists across Asia and the world through film, publishing, and cross-cultural collaborations focused on feminism, LGBTQ+ visibility, and social justice. We’re launching the first issue of the Baturu Human Rights Comics Anthology, a project that will be printed in multiple languages, bringing together short comics exploring themes of diversity, equity, and inclusion, with a focus on feminist and LGBTQ+ experiences. For this first issue, we invite you to contribute new or existing works that address gender-based violence against women —… Read More

guest post by Jane Burns One of many wonderful aspects about being involved in the Graphic Medicine community is the level of generosity, openness, and inclusivity. For many years now, I have been interested and involved in Graphic Medicine and it has been an overriding ambition to bring awareness about it to Ireland. In the summer of July 2024, I was the Conference Ambassador for the 15th International Conference at the Technological University of the Shannon in Athlone, Ireland.  Awareness about Graphic Medicine here in Ireland has really grown. So much so that we recently launched one of the first… Read More

Join us as AD Lewis moderates a discussion with the authors, editors, and publisher of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto 10th Anniversary edition! To register, go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/graphic-medicine-manifesto-10th-anniversary-edition-launch-tickets-1748614526119?aff=oddtdtcreator