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Spotlight: The White Horse

Mar. 15, 2023 by Kevin Wolf Leave a Comment

A Tale of Fear and Loneliness by Debra May Silver The White Horse is a unique hand illustrated book that takes you on a powerful, visual journey of dark thoughts, emotions and brings focus to the physical and mental burden of living with anxiety in the modern world.   You can acquire The White Horse from her website at www.shipstreetpoetry.com. Debra May Silver self-published her debut collection of poetry “My Rabid Fucking Soul” in 2019 & has since self-published “Rise Up Rabid Souls” an anthology of poetry & art as well as “The White Horse” a graphic novel. She is the founder… Read More

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Filed Under: Spotlight Tagged With: fear, loneliness, mental health

Medical Mentions Book Review VI

Dec. 26, 2022 by Kevin Wolf Leave a Comment

Medical Mentions is a group of graphic works. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be part of the review with one paragraph for each. Prior Medical Mentions… Read More

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Filed Under: Medical Mentions Tagged With: Affordable Care Act, anxiety, car accident, cyber-bullying, death, depression, endangered species, environmentalism, fall injury, foster home, Hippocrates, ipecac, Medicare/Medicaid, mental health, philosophy, public health, racism, suicide

Spotlight: Dori Seda’s Hospital Hell and Other Works Discussed in The Comics Journal

Dec. 10, 2022 by Kevin Wolf Leave a Comment

Article by Edward Dorey Dori Seda was a prolific cartoonist in the Reagan era, crafting short comics for Wimmen’s Comix, Weirdo, Tits and Clits, and her own anthology collection Lonely Nights Comics before her death at 37 in 1988. Most academics focus on how Seda’s open displays of sexuality challenged the rise of conservatism in the eighties, for Seda’s work often dealt with topics such as BDSM, the ethics of swinging, and the seedier parts of raising a dog. However, Seda’s short science-fiction story “Hospital Hell!!” is a long-form critique of the Reagan administration’s economic policies, hypothesizing what a perpetual… Read More

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Filed Under: Spotlight Tagged With: Dori Seda, The Comics Journal

Medical Mentions Book Reviews V

Jul. 17, 2022 by Kevin Wolf Leave a Comment

Book Review by Kevin Wolf Medical Mentions is a group of graphic works. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be part of the review with one paragraph… Read More

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Filed Under: Graphic Novels Tagged With: birth, car accident, COVID-19, drawing injury, eating disorder, environment, fever, infection, injury, Pandemic, pregnancy, PTSD, self-harm

Medical Mentions Book Reviews IV

Dec. 18, 2021 by Kevin Wolf Leave a Comment

  Where to buy: https://bookshop.org/lists/recently-reviewed-on-graphicmedicine-org Medical Mentions is a group of graphic works. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be part of the review with one paragraph… Read More

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Filed Under: Medical Mentions Tagged With: alcoholism, bullying, glaucoma, iritis, mental health, orthodontics, Veterinary Medicine

Billy Ireland announces new exhibition called Power Lines: Comics and the Environment

Nov. 20, 2021 by Kevin Wolf Leave a Comment

Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum announces Power Lines: Comics and the Environment (shown below), a new exhibition on a public health issue: the environment and human’s effect on it. BICLM is on campus at The Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio.  For some specific graphic works related to this topic, see a recent graphic medicine review on Climate Change and Environmentalists (https://www.graphicmedicine.org/comic-reviews/climate-change-environmentalists/)   Power Lines: Comics and the Environment November 13, 2021 – May 8, 2022 At the start of the 21st century, the term Anthropocene was coined to describe a new geological epoch defined by humanity’s transformation of the natural world.  Scientists have long known… Read More

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Filed Under: Exhibitions Tagged With: climate change, environment

Medical Mentions Book Reviews III

Oct. 24, 2021 by Kevin Wolf Leave a Comment

Where to Buy: https://bookshop.org/shop/graphicmedicine   Book Review by Kevin Wolf   Medical Mentions is a group of graphic works. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be part… Read More

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Filed Under: Medical Mentions Tagged With: bullying, death, disease, grieving, mental health, self-acceptance, self-doubt

Medical Mentions Book Reviews II

Jun. 14, 2021 by Kevin Wolf Leave a Comment

Medical Mentions is a different type of posting at graphicmedicine.org. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often five or more pages. The reviewer will usually neither recommend or discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be provided with one paragraph for each book with the medical mention. The first medical… Read More

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Filed Under: Medical Mentions Tagged With: Big Pharma, climate change, gender nonconforming, injury, scurvy

Medical Mentions Book Reviews I

Jan. 5, 2021 by Kevin Wolf 2 Comments

Medical Mentions is a new type of posting at graphicmedicine.org. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be provided with one paragraph for each. With that in mind… Read More

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Filed Under: Medical Mentions Tagged With: allergy, appendicitis, bipolar disorder, Huntington's Chorea, pregnancy, systemic lupus erythematosus

Report from Cartoon Crossroads Columbus

Nov. 4, 2016 by Kevin Wolf 1 Comment

Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC), October 13-16, 2016, Columbus Ohio By Kevin Wolf As the festival director, Tom Spurgeon, wrote in the Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) brochure, “For one week every Fall, it’s our mission to make Columbus the cartooning capital of the world.” CXC is more than a comic convention. It provides cartoonists, academics, fans, and anyone else interested a place to meet, hear presentations, get books signed, buy comic works, and discuss all things comics. For those interested in Comics & Medicine aspects, there might be cartoonists who wrote medicine-related graphic novels or memoirs. Or one might hear an… Read More

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