‘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… This covers the period of 11/9 until 11/22 as there was not a post in the week between. Matthew’s Pick of the Week… We have a Toronto Conference Date: July 16 – 19, 2020! We have a Toronto Conference Theme: Graphic Medicine In/During Troubled Times: Social Justice and Human Rights! We have a hashtag too: #GraphMed2020! Expect the call for papers to come by December… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (11/8/2019)
‘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: This Week in Graphic Medicine will NOT be posted next week (11/15) as the GM team will be at a retreat. Matthew’s Pick of the Week… I promise this isn’t a paid ad and I normally don’t plug sales, but this time I have to: you can get 30 – 50% off of titles in the PSU Press Graphic Medicine series between now and November… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (11/1/2019)
‘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… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… Pick this week HAS to be this fantastic article about using My Degeneration to enhance clinician’s understanding and empathy by a slew of GM folks: Use of a Graphic Memoir to Enhance Clinicians’ Understanding of and Empathy for Patients with Parkinson Disease. I also want to use this space to apologize for the inconsistency of TWIGM throughout the Fall. I can’t promise… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (10/11/2019)
‘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… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… Jarret J. Krosoczka won the Book of the Year award at the Harveys Hey Kiddo! You can find at least part of his acceptance speech on his Facebook page. Find a full list of winners here. Conference… 2020 Graphic Medicine Conference – More to Come! Articles & More… Funding: Applications now open for the 2020 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for… Read More
2020 Graphic Medicine Conference – More to Come!
Many of you have begun messaging about information for the 2020 Graphic Medicine Conference – we love your enthusiasm! We want to assure you that planning is ongoing, rapidly, and you should expect to begin seeing more information soon, including this year’s theme and call for papers. In the meantime, some of you may have missed our 2020 location as announced during the 2019 conference closing. The 2020 Graphic Medicine Conference will be held in Toronto, Canada! You may recall that the 2012 conference – Comics and Medicine: Navigating the Margins – was also held in Toronto, and the organizers… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (10/4/2019)
‘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: Apologies for the unexpected off-week last week and thanks to Alice for filling in the week before! There will be some attempt at catching up with links below, but things are surely missed. It was unavoidable. Matthew’s Pick of the Week… I know it isn’t quite new news now, but I just want to celebrate Lynda Barry’s winning a MacArthur genius grant! This is seriously… Read More
AAG 2020 Call for Papers: Contesting marginalization: (carto)graphic representations of mental health
Posted on behalf of Ebru Ustundag. Please contact them directly with questions. AAG 2020 Call for Papers: Contesting marginalization: (carto)graphic representations of mental health Organizers: Ebru Ustundag, Brock University, Canada Laurence Simard-Gagnon, York University, Canada Beverley Mullings, Queen’s University, Canada Linda Peake, York University, Canada Session Description Scholars have recently begun exploring the benefits of creative mediums to understand the complexities of health care and health inequities (Williams, 2012; Vaccarella, 2013; Quesenberry and Squier, 2015; de Leeuw and Hawkins, 2017; de Leeuw et al., 2018). Recent scholarship in geohumanities and health geographies has argued for the necessity of the incorporation… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (9/13/2019)
‘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… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week, I want to encourage you to follow along with the dotMD festival happening over the weekend in Galway, Ireland! Both Ian and MK (among many other familiar faces!) are in attendance, speaking, and taking part in a Graphic Medicine Exhibition curated by Ian! dotMD on Twitter and the 2019 hashtag (for Twitter and Instagram both) are great ways to… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (9/6/2019)
‘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… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week’s pick comes thanks to Michael Green and isn’t strictly speaking health related, but it does show an amazing example of using comics effectively in another rather conservative (little c) field: law. Created in response to a lawsuit about eBook pricing, a lawyer partnered up with a cartoonist to file a cartoon amicus brief! You can read about the case, why… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (8/30/2019)
‘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… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… There’s been a lot of ongoing discussion about how to make comics accessible, specifically for those with visual impairments, both within the graphic medicine community and the larger comics scholars world. Perhaps this new audio comic – Unseen – might give us an approach that can work. Articles & More… Event: NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium: James Romberger Event: Hysteria or Misogyny?… Read More
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