Find Stephanie’s full Pain Dairies comic here. “Pain Diaries” is a comic describing my experience with endometriosis as well as the fears, frustrations, and suffering that comes with having chronic pain. Endometriosis is a disorder where the uterine lining grows outside of the uterus, causing severe pain and a myriad of other serious health issues. From age 12 (when I first got my period) to age 29, I lived without a label for my suffering. Experiencing daily chronic pain without a diagnosis felt like I was existing in a large empty body of water, constantly drowning but never dying. Living with a… Read More
Spotlight: Let’s Talk About It: A Graphic Guide To Mental Health
Spotlight post by James Sturm, Director and Cofounder of The Center for Cartoon Studies As director of The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS), I had worked on putting together a graphic guide about democracy and governance. The book circulated widely and Stark County Mental Health & Addiction Recovery (StarkMHAR), a team responsible for engaging and educating middle school students, came across it and reached out to see if CCS would be interested in creating a graphic guide to mental health. These projects seem to happen when the right opportunity meets the right cartoonist at the right time. When this opportunity… Read More
Graphic Medicine Quantified: An Annotated Bibliography
Graphic Medicine Quantified: An Annotated Bibliography by A. David Lewis A challenge for Graphic Medicine is its being juxtaposed alongside biomedical and scientific fields of work that operate largely in the realm of statistics and quantifiable analytics. Often, the scholarship in Graphic Medicine comes without numbers. It is anecdotal, experiential, aesthetic/literary, or theoretical, customarily, and only occasionally calculable. This is neither a flaw nor weakness of Graphic Medicine, but it is also adaptable. If practitioners and clinicians utilizing elements of Graphic Medicine so choose, they can opt to perform further studies on its measurable effects. This is not a matter… Read More
Mapping the Use of Comics in Health Education: A Scoping Review of the Graphic Medicine Literature
Mapping the Use of Comics in Health Education: A Scoping Review of the Graphic Medicine Literature Matthew N. Noe, MSLS ; Leonard L. Levin, MS LIS, MA, AHIP Special thanks to Suzana Makowski, MD, MMM, CPE This project was made possible with a Mapping the Landscape, Journeying Together grant from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Research Institute. As many of you will remember, since Fall 2016, I have been discussing a scoping review project on the use of comics in education – a project that emerged out of the receipt of a Gold Foundation Mapping the Landscape Grant. In short,… Read More
CFP: Flyover Comics Symposium
See the full conference information and submit your proposal at: https://digital-frontiers.org/satellite-events/flyover/ The events of 2020 have disrupted normal patterns for professional conferences, resulting in cancellations of major comics studies meetings. To fill the lacunae left by these cancellations, three university comics studies communities are uniting with Digital Frontiers to offer the Flyover Comics Symposium, a virtual conference for comics studies scholars, students, and professionals. Submissions If you have a proposal that was accepted to any canceled comics event in 2020, POW! you’re accepted! Just submit your 500-word abstract and upload a PDF of your acceptance notification in the submission form…. Read More
CFP: Comics in the Time of COVID-19
CFP: Comics in the Time of COVID-19 An edited collection on graphic medicine and graphic storytelling related to the COVID-19 global pandemic Editors: Alexandra P. Alberda Anna Feigenbaum William Proctor As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to infect millions, kill people around the world, dismantle political, economic and cultural infrastructures, and disrupt our everyday lives, we have seen a surge in amateur and professional creative activity in the comics medium. From blogs to Instagram, superheroes to public health, educational comics to graphic memoirs, etc., artists are engaging with a variety of genres, narratives, platforms and styles to tell stories. This edited… Read More
Call for Comics for a Graphic Mundi COVID-19 Anthology
Full call information can be found here: http://www.psupress.org/COVID-19_ComicsAnthology.html Call for Comics for a COVID-19 Anthology As COVID-19 moves swiftly across the globe, most of us find ourselves in an unfathomable state of being—something we’d never believed possible, a true reality check. For those of us who look to comics as a way to think things through in times of uncertainty, to comprehend and to empathize, we have begun planning the publication of a curated anthology of COVID-19 comics for release in early 2021, when we’ll launch the Graphic Mundi imprint of Penn State University Press. The anthology will include short comics from writers and artists… Read More
Guest Post: Native American artists respond to COVID-19, Naomi Bishop
As a medical librarian, I know that the information about COVID-19 is overwhelming, so the information most important to families and communities is something that should be highlighted and shared often. Communication about the Novel Coronavirus pandemic of 2020 sheds light on how comics help communities in different areas. Native American communities across the US are not immune to the pandemic. As cases are rising in tribal communities, many nations have announced stay at home orders for citizens and are preparing for the worst outcomes. In response, Native artists and creators have put their energy into creating art that… Read More
An Update on Graphic Medicine 2020
With great regret, and after serious deliberation, the Graphic Medicine conference scheduled for Toronto in July of this year has been cancelled due to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic. If you submitted a proposal, you will be contacted individually by the conference organizers in the next day or two. Please stay checked in with us on social media and here at GraphicMedicine.org for updates about alternative engagement opportunities in the coming days. Stay safe, be kind.
(Guest) This Week in Graphic Medicine (12/17/19)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights news about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary. So without further ado… Note… As you may have seen on social media, TWIGM is on a hiatus until after the New Year – I (Matthew) am taking a rest from online life throughout the holiday break. In light of this, you may see a few TWIGM posts by guest authors (yay!) and they may take a different approach. This Week is brought to you by guest author Talicia Tarver,… Read More
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