Joyce Brabner will be the first keynote speaker at the upcoming Comics and Medicine conference.  Guest blogger Mita Mahato looks at the overlapping commitment to comics and activism that characterizes Brabner’s life. Perhaps the most apparent link that joins Joyce Brabner to Graphic Medicine is Our Cancer Year (1994), the comics memoir she wrote with her late husband, Harvey Pekar.   Blending the perspectives of caregiver Brabner and patient Pekar, the book (illustrated by Frank Stack) not only highlights the gritty realities of cancer, chemotherapy, and the effects both have on mind and body, but also positions that illness within the… Read More