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Ariya Desai is a high school student with a passion for health education, the empowerment of the South Asian community, and using creative storytelling to make complex medical topics more accessible. Through her graphic story, she explores why South Asian populations face a higher risk of developing diabetes.

Garden Wolf Publishing is seeking an illustrator for Where Your Eyes Can’t Go, a rhyming children’s picture book by husband-and-wife co-authors, clinical pharmacologist Erica Winter and psychiatrist Eli Shalenberg. The book takes young readers on a journey to explore the human body (the heart, blood vessels, and cells), introducing basic cell biology in a way that’s fun and never dumbed down. Targeting ages 6–9. They’re looking for a textured, organic, and detailed style with an old-school aesthetic (think pencil or watercolor, though digital execution like Procreate is welcome) rather than flat, vector, or slick digital illustration. Scientific accuracy matters: they… Read More

September 8th marks the official release date of “The Book of Genocides,” the new graphic narrative by artist and anthropologist Dana Mashoian Walrath. As described on the publisher’s book site, “The Book of Genocides” is a stark, immersive graphic narrative that compels readers to confront some of the most devastating episodes in human history. Drawing on visual strategies from the disaster-comics tradition of Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman, Walrath traces ten genocides across five centuries—from the First Peoples of the Americas to the Rohingya in today’s Myanmar. These ten genocides have never before been chronicled together in this graphic form,… Read More

The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) is thrilled to announce the addition of two new members to its board: Esther Saltzman, PhD, is the Nursing Liaison for GMIC. Through graphic medicine, she has been able to combine her background in nursing with her teaching of literature. She has taught graphic medicine classes through the English Departments at the Memphis College of Art and at California State University, Los Angeles. She is the co-editor of Drawn from the Classics, Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literary Works, and has written on comics and nursing in the Journal of Radiology Nursing. While at… Read More

As part of the Graphic Medicine 2026 Conference, our friends at Lizard Brain set up long visual facilitation board – a Wisdom Wall – and invited conference attendees to participate in shared brainstorming, thinking, and meaning-making across multiple days. You can see it in motion on their Instagram here and here! On one side, attendees were asked to share “What challenges most affect your work in graphic medicine or in creating health narratives?”. On the other, attendees responded to the prompt, “What do you believe the solutions to these challenges are?”. Attendees provided the concepts, exact phrases, and, because this is a comics… Read More

As Ebru Ustundag and Matthew Noe conclude their terms on the board of the Graphic Medicine International Collective, GMIC would like to extend its immense thanks for their invaluable leadership, contributions, time, and expertise Ebru Ustundag Serving as Co-Chair for the past three years, Ebru has been a vital guiding force, steering the organization with grace and vision through a pivotal era of expansion and evolution. Ebru brought her invaluable perspective as a critical feminist geographer to the heart of GMIC. Her deep commitment to the intersections of health, care, and social justice profoundly influenced how our organization operates and… Read More