About five years into my career as an emergency doctor in the Boston area, I discovered a little known benefit of my practice group: sabbatical. With five years of service we had the option of taking some unpaid but protected time for, well, no one knew what it was for. After the nonstop spinny ride of medical school, residency and five years of practice, I jumped at the chance to do something, anything, for a month that wasn’t medicine. But what? Music lessons? Writing? I didn’t know. But I had the kernel of a story kicking around in my head,… Read More
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CFP: CorpoRealities: Perceptions of ‘Extraordinary’ Time in Literature and Comics
CorpoRealities: Perceptions of ‘Extraordinary’ Time in Literature and Comics Workshop at Freie Universität Berlin, Thursday, June 25 to Saturday, June 27, 2020 Literature and comics are each in their own specific ways ‘temporal arts’, unfolding sequences of action, collapsing or contrasting story time and discourse time, and representing temporal sequences in narrative or visual-spatial ways. Both media can deviate from chronological time and work with flashbacks and flashforwards, fragmentation, thus evoking, for instance, the layering of time and simultaneity. When representing experiences of ‘otherness’ due to illness and/ or disability, perceptions of time that deviate from normal chronometry gain center stage:… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (6/14/19)
‘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… No pick this week, but an important bit of news: This Week in Graphic Medicine will be on hiatus, after this issue, until August. I announced this on Twitter yesterday as well. The primary reason for the break is that I am both taking time off and doing a great deal of travel in the next month-and-a-half, so finding a chance… Read More
Guest Post: Vicarious Trauma Illustrated, Rebecca Bloom
Guest Post by Rebecca Bloom, LMHC, ATR-BC Art Therapist Instagram: rtext www.bloomcounseling.com When mainstream media began to cover that ICE was imprisoning migrant children in cages, I was on the Kornati Islands in Croatia. From a speck of limestone in the middle of the Adriatic Sea, I was doing my best to support my friends in the states as they told me about the unrelenting grief they were feeling. Living in a two room stone house with solar power, cold water only and Wi-Fi, I was sending friends photos of olive trees, street cats and sunsets trying to tell them we would find away to end this. I had been… Read More
Spotlight: Lisa Wilde’s Lacunae
My mother’s death opened a door from my childhood that I thought had been shut tight. Much of what came out was in the form of drawings, as if certain feelings had been preserved in amber. These images became Lacunae, a graphic memoir of grief, abuse and ultimately, healing. Below is chapter 2: my father has been paralyzed from the waist down in an automobile accident. After five months in the hospital, he’s allowed to come home. An earlier version of Lacunae was serialized on the website MUTHAMAGAZINE.COM. My previous graphic book is Yo, Miss: A Graphic Look at High… Read More
Brighton Conference – Final Programme
This conference is going to be GREAT! The link for registration is HERE. Here, for your scrutiny, is an updated programme of events, which – last minute tweaks notwithstanding – shows the final shape of the conference. Please include #GM2019 in your tweets, Instagram posts, etc.! The conference is being held at two venues, a five-minute walk apart. The evening events will be held at the Phoenix Arts Centre, and the daytime programming at the Sallis Benney Theatre. Both venues are in central Brighton, and surrounded by history. They are close to many restaurants, bars and cafes and we have allowed… Read More
Drawing Out – new metaphor-based website to help people with invisible conditions.
People with ‘invisible’ diseases (e.g., infertility, endometriosis, Cystic Fibrosis, ME, depression) may find it especially difficult to explain their experiences to others. A new website, www.drawingout.org, uses simple metaphor-based drawing exercises to help people express and share their thoughts and feelings about their condition. The online galleries showcase the artwork produced by patients, as well as providing links to information and support through their partner charities. The website is the result of collaboration between two academics at Cardiff University: Dr Sofia Gameiro is a psychologist who focuses on understanding and improving the healthcare experiences of infertile patients. Dr Lisa El… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (6/7/19)
‘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 point you to a new feature of the graphic medicine website: spotlights! We get a dozen or more messages a week about exciting projects, new books, inquiries to learn more – and there are just 4 of us – so this is a new way for us to help share information about the work of everyone… Read More
Spotlight: Anita White
Emotional Medical Drawings, Done in the Moment, Over Time, and Through the End guest post by Anita White My darling husband Josh is now of blessed memory. He died very peacefully on April 10th in St Paul, Minnesota. I held his hand to the very end. Josh was very brave and endured many many medical trials. The last two years were intense, and the last four months were a series of hospital stays in Cardio Renal, and the ER, with blood transfusions and time in and out of a transitional care nursing home. In addition our Minnesota winter was the worst ever… Read More
Spotlight: Emily Steinberg
Emily Steinberg, MFA, is the Artist in Residence at Drexel College of Medicine in Philadelphia and a lecturer in fine art at Penn State Abington. We are thrilled to excerpt her newest piece, Mid-Century Hipster here on Graphic Medicine. With her glorious color palette and keen observational eye, Emily shares her hip replacement surgery experience in comic form. Click through at the end of these images to read the full comic on Cleaver Magazine. The “prequel” to this piece will appear in the upcoming anthology Menopause: A Comic Treatment (Penn State University Press, 2020). READ THE REST OF THE STORY,… Read More
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