Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on a new comic inspired by multiple myeloma and the medication DARA, from Mark Phillips and collaborators. About the Work My sister has multiple myeloma and started taking the drug DARA in 2019. She and I had some interesting/fun conversation about her visualization of what DARA was doing for her, and one thing led to another, and I had a short comic book made for her, featuring DARA as the super-heroine. She loved it, her doctors at the Mayo Clinic loved it, and that is as… Read More
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GMIC Board Welcomes Esther Saltzman and Gianna Paniagua
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
Graphic Medicine Podcast: Special Guest Grace Farris!
Welcome to the Graphic Medicine podcast! Your hosts are Alex Thomas (https://boostershotmedia.com/) and MK Czerwiec (https://comicnurse.com/.) After an opening chat about their April participation in the Neubauer Conference , Alex & MK interview Grace Farris about her book See One, Do One, Teach One. Shownotes: Grace Farris website Grace’s Reccs: Tokyo Suite My Husband Cooking as an Art, episode with Jerry Saltz Alex’s Reccs: Starman MK’s Reccs: Tana French mysteries In the Woods John Banville mysteries
Graphic Medicine Under Pressure Wisdom Wall
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
A Thank You to Ebru Ustundag and Matthew Noe
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
CFP: Comics Forum 2026: Welfare
We are sharing this on behalf of the organizers; please contact them directly for any questions! 12-13 November 2026, Leeds Central Library (UK) Comics and related forms have engaged with themes of welfare since at least as early as 1751, when Hogarth’s prints Beer Street and Gin Lane presented satirical comments on alcohol legislation and public health. Since then, depictions of welfare-related concerns have proliferated in comics ranging from small scale graphic pathographies through to large scale public communication campaigns. The rise of Graphic Medicine as a field of scholarship has given visibility to titles exploring health, disability and wellbeing, but comics are equally… Read More
CFP: Special Issue of Disability Studies Quarterly: Global and Intersectional Framings of Disability in Comics & Graphic Narratives
Sharing on behalf of the editors – please contact them directly for questions! CALL FOR PAPERS – SPECIAL ISSUE OF DISABILITY STUDIES QUARTERLY: Global and Intersectional Framings of Disability in Comics & Graphic Narratives Edited by Crystal Yin Lie (California State University, Long Beach) and Kai Qing Tan (Ghent University; Aachen University) Comics and graphic narratives have become a powerful medium for representing embodied disability experience. Foundational scholarship in disability and comics studies has largely focused on Anglophone and Euro-American contexts. This special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly seeks to expand the field by foregrounding transnational, multilingual, and Global South perspectives…. Read More
CFP: Graphic Medicine as Method: Visual Storytelling and New Directions in Medical/Health Humanities
Sharing on behalf of the organizers – please contact them directly for any questions! We would like to share the Call for Papers (max. 20 minute per paper) for the virtual ACLA seminar in May 2027 on the topic of using graphic medicine as method (for medical/health humanities – also as a means to advocate for disability rights): “Graphic Medicine as Method: Visual Storytelling and New Directions in Medical/Health Humanities” https://www.acla.org/seminar/8e8951d5-0528-4f3b-8ca6-a85d927b7bbf Keywords: Graphic Medicine, Medical Humanities, Disability Studies, Intersectionality, Participatory Research The seminar will bring together the perspectives of our international attendees to foster discussions and the sharing of ideas… Read More
Anatomy of a Graphic Medicine Conference, by Sal Marx
Artist and 2026 Burns Scholarship recipient Sal Marx brings us “Anatomy of a Graphic Medicine Conference,” a comic recap of their experiences from the 2026 Graphic Medicine Conference.
2026 Graphic Medicine Awards Winners Announced!
The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2026 GMIC Awards!!! The winners in each of three categories of the 2026 Graphic Medicine International Collective Awards were announced on Saturday, July 25th, 2026, at the GMIC annual conference in Baltimore. You can read about each of the shortlisted works in each category here. These awards are made possible by your donations and a generous matching gift in Honor of Nancy and Herbert Wolf. The matching gift is intended to honor and carry on Nancy and Herbert’s legacy of service and care. You can contribute to… Read More