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Medical Mentions Book Review VI

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Medical Mentions is a group of graphic works. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be part of the review with one paragraph for each. Prior Medical Mentions… Read More

Spotlight: Missed

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“I’ve made a couple of short autobio comics in the past and had intended to stop, but here we are again. The medium is a really useful one for processing life events. This is a short story about a pregnancy which came and went with almost nobody knowing about it. I made this to acknowledge its existence, pick through the feelings or lack thereof, and gently lift it out of the silence where it otherwise would’ve stayed.” –  Niki Banados   https://nikibanados.com/ https://www.instagram.com/stickwriter/

New Podcast Episode: Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars Interview

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MK Czerwiec interviews Rick Louis and Lara Antal on their collaboration creating Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars. Rick Louis allows the reader a look into his experiences having a child with Tay-Sachs disease. He worked with Lara Antal to make the graphic memoir a reality. Rick and Lara discuss how their partnership started and how they communicated to make the best possible story. During the interview Rick Louis mentions a quote: The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel. It is attributed to Horace Walpole quote, but also might have been… Read More

Call for Submissions: Graphic Medicine 2023 in Toronto

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Call for Submissions: Graphic Medicine Annual Conference, July 13-15, 2023 University of Toronto Downtown Campus, Toronto, ON, Canada The Graphic Medicine conference is returning to Toronto! This will be a hybrid conference, with in-person and virtual attendance options. The conference theme is “Graphic Medicine: Encounters and Invitations”. We invite the submission of a wide variety of abstracts focusing on health, illness, caregiving, and disability as they intersect with comics in any form (e.g., graphic novels and memoir, comic strips, manga, mini comics, web comics, etc.). Presentations may explore the following questions and topics, or others you feel are relevant to… Read More

New Reviews on the Site

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SPECIAL THANKS to our book reviews editor, Kevin Wolf, and all of our new and returning guest reviewers who answered the call!  Introducing Psychology: A Graphic Guide to Your Mind & Behavior How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual The Book of Niall

Drawing Together #44: Grace

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The Drawing Together community convened again on Sunday, November 27. Our session was led by nurse, cartoonist, and educator MK Czerwiec. You can learn more about her work on her website, www.comicnurse.com. She presented this session from the Eastern coast of Lake Michigan, the unceded land of the Kickapoo, Peoria, Potawatomi, and Myaamia tribes. For every section of our work today, you can watch and work along with the following videos or follow the written prompts below. Set your timers and supply your own music if you like. We started with a warmup exercise built around box breathing. First, let’s start by… Read More

Spotlight: Shame Spiral

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guest post by Juanita Navarro-Páez, PhD student (she/her/hers) The Shame and Medicine Project and The Shame Conversation have been collaborating with Charlotte Wu on a project to produce graphic medicine resources designed to teach medical learners about the impact of shame and other emotions in healthcare, medical learning, and clinical experience. Shame Spiral, created in collaboration with artist Hannah Mumby, is the first comic to come out as a result of this project. Shame is a normal but powerful emotion that, taken to an extreme, can lead medical learners to experience emotional distress, impaired empathy, social isolation, and engage in… Read More

Spotlight: Dori Seda’s Hospital Hell and Other Works Discussed in The Comics Journal

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Article by Edward Dorey Dori Seda was a prolific cartoonist in the Reagan era, crafting short comics for Wimmen’s Comix, Weirdo, Tits and Clits, and her own anthology collection Lonely Nights Comics before her death at 37 in 1988. Most academics focus on how Seda’s open displays of sexuality challenged the rise of conservatism in the eighties, for Seda’s work often dealt with topics such as BDSM, the ethics of swinging, and the seedier parts of raising a dog. However, Seda’s short science-fiction story “Hospital Hell!!” is a long-form critique of the Reagan administration’s economic policies, hypothesizing what a perpetual… Read More

Crashing Course: An Interview with Matthew Klein

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guest post (and interview) by A. David Lewis  Even in a world of superpowers and arch villains, healthcare can still be fraught, frustrating, and even futile. In Matthew Klein and Morgan Beem’s series Crashing (IDW Publishing), Dr. Rose Osler must push against her hospital’s policy of refusing treatment for “Powered” individuals, even if it costs the doctor her hard-won sobriety. Klein was kind enough to answer some questions about his book, particularly how addiction and workplace burnout might function in an admittedly fantastic, but recognizable, setting.  A. David Lewis: Why set the story in Boston? Matthew Klein: I thought Boston… Read More

Accessible Comics Design Competition Winners Announced

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The Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability in collaboration with Comic Studies and the Program in Visual Impairments at San Francisco State University hosted two international conversations to explore cutting edge strategies for making comics accessible to blind and low vision readers. They assembled a network of comic artists, access providers, and blind experts – now called the Accessible Comics Collective (ACC). To encourage further development in this realm, they hosted a prize competition to support innovative approaches. The ACC has selected five exceptional teams who have either adapted existing comics into accessible formats or have created an original comic… Read More