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This Week in Graphic Medicine (9/13/2019)

Sep. 13, 2019 by Matthew Noe

‘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)

Sep. 6, 2019 by Matthew Noe

‘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

Expanding Literacy in the Classroom – Richard Jaggers

Sep. 1, 2019 by Alice Jaggers

Hello! My name is Richard Jaggers, and I am currently a Master’s student in teaching. After I gave my lightning talk, Expanding Literacy in the Classroom: Integrating Graphic Medicine in Primary and Secondary School Environments, at the Graphic Medicine Conference 2019 in Brighton, I was asked about writing a blog post for this site. Plenty of people have talked about integrating graphic medicine into academic environments before, but the majority of these discussions focus on medical schools and universities. I want to be even more aggressive, bringing graphic medicine into schools at all levels, even down to elementary. The understanding… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (8/30/2019)

Aug. 30, 2019 by Matthew Noe

‘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

This Week in Graphic Medicine (8/23/2019)

Aug. 23, 2019 by Matthew Noe

‘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… Whether you made it to Brighton for this year’s conference or watched from afar, you won’t want to miss the latest Graphic Medicine podcast: a recording of Meg-John Barker’s fabulous keynote address. Articles & More… CFP: Drawing the Human: Law, Comics, Justice Kickstarter: Living With Cancer: Our Stories Webcomic: Mardou: Day One You can also find days two through five here…. Read More

Conference Keynote: Meg-John Barker

Aug. 19, 2019 by Comic Nurse

Welcome to the first of two keynote addresses from the 2019 Graphic Medicine conference, the theme of which was, “Queerying Graphic Medicine: Paradigms, Power, and Practice.” Conference co-host Dr. Muna Al-Jawad created a comic which appeared in the program to say more about that theme: Meg-John Barker’s keynote address fits perfectly with this framing of our conference and our work in Graphic Medicine. Meg-John is the author of a number of popular books on sex, gender, and relationships, including Queer: A Graphic History, How to Understand your Gender, Life isn’t Binary, Enjoy Sex (How, When, and IF You Want To),… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (8/16/2019)

Aug. 16, 2019 by Matthew Noe

‘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… My pick of the week is this much-needed scholarly comic – Writing medical comics – by the always great Miriam Waite. As I noted on Twitter, there has been a lot of conversation about the need for guidance on just how to develop medical comics, but thus far those conversations have led to little. Hopefully this is a change in that… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (8/9/2019)

Aug. 9, 2019 by Matthew Noe

‘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’ve come across two comics that strike me as near-required reading. [Both are potentially triggering.] First, this webcomic by Julia Wertz – Things You Might Not Know About Miscarriage. Second, this webcomic by Kailin Walker & Kerry Wineberg – What is Kindness?. Articles & More… CFP: Comics and Technology: 3rd Annual Conference of the Comics Study Society CFP: Call… Read More

Call for Abstracts: British Society of Aesthetics Conference: Art, Aesthetics, and the Medical and Health Humanities (Kent, 7-9 Feb 2020)

Aug. 6, 2019 by Matthew Noe

The Aesthetics Research Centre at The University of Kent invites abstracts for: British Society of Aesthetics Conference: Art, Aesthetics, and the Medical and Health Humanities https://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/newsandevents/index.html?view=2574 7–9 February 2020, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. This conference will bring together Analytic Aesthetics and the Medical and Health Humanities. These disciplines share important core concerns and have much to offer one another. The medical and health humanities explore the role of the humanities – and especially the arts – in medicine, medical education and healthcare. In the process they engage with many topics that are central to analytic aesthetics, including narrative, creativity, imagination,… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (8/2/2019)

Aug. 2, 2019 by Matthew Noe

‘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… The latest from Anita Ravi, MD, exploring homelessness in medicine: Patients Facing Homelessness Need More Than Referrals. Reminder: TWIGM was on hiatus throughout July and I do not back-log for the posts – thank you for understanding! Special Note… As you likely already know, The Nib, one of the most regular outlets for graphic medicine webcomics, is losing their funding as of… Read More