‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week, rather than highlight a particular work, I want to provide some suggestions on where you might publish your work – in particular, works of graphic art in the scholarly realm. I get this question quite often, and I still feel I don’t have all that many… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (4/13/18)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… My pick this week will be short, but made me smile so much I couldn’t help but highlight it. When I posted a link you’ll see below from Public Libraries Online to the ALA Graphic Novels & Comics in Libraries MIG, a student – Joy Bancroft – replied… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (4/6/18)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week’s highlight is actually a comic that was released back in December 2017, but I just discovered (or rediscovered – I honestly don’t know) it this week and feel compelled to make sure you see it as well. The comic is titled, Europe’s Waitingroom: Visiting the Refugees… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/30/18)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week’s pick was actually posted last Friday, just a few hours shy of when posted last week’s blog, but it is too important and powerful to not count as this week’s pick: LINES DRAWN: Parents and Teachers Who’ve Had Enough. The first part of what looks to… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/23/18)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week, Comics and Medicine: The Ways We Work, 2018 Conference Updates! The hosts of this year’s conference – The Center for Cartoon Studies and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth – have launched the big marketing push for the conference, coming this August. Some links include… CCS… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/16/18)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… Continuing the trend of highlighting the National Library of Medicine’s work with Graphic Medicine, this week I want to highlight the latest GM Podcast, in which MK discusses the field with Dr. Patricia Brennan, director of the NLM. I encourage you to head right over and listen… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/9/18)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… I’ve had a strange week, interrupted by a 2nd nor’easter in as many weeks and a disjointed work schedule. Because of that, I must apologize and admit there just isn’t time for a long post for my pick of the week. That said, I will use this… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/2/18)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week is yet another no-contest for pick of the week, since on Thursday, March 1st, we saw Dr. Patti Brennan, head of the National Library of Medicine, moderate A Conversation about Graphic Medicine with Ellen Forney, MK Czerwiec, and Dr. Michael Green. This talk was coordinated to go… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (2/23/18)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week I want to keep it short and sweet by highlighting Just Peachy Comics – a webcomic I just discovered this week on Facebook thanks to a friend’s share. Holly describes her comics as a way to journal as her therapist suggested – lucky for us, the… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (2/16/18)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… For the first time since I started this section of the blog, I am actually highlighting a specific published comic (yes I really did take more than a month to do so). The always fabulous Cathy Leamy (@metrokitty on Twitter) saw her comic, IBD Comic: The Bittersweetness of… Read More