guest post by Tatiana Gill This is my story of 24 years on psychiatric medication, and how I discovered behaviors that help my mental health in sustainable ways. I’ve taken many anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications throughout my life and I hoped other people on their own “head med” journeys might benefit from my story. My original intention was to create a comic that depicted the medications I took, why I took them, and their benefits and side effects. To this end I combed over old medical records and journal. Instead of a single narrative I found a hotbed of intertwined… Read More
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Drawing Together Week 3: Ancestors
In case you were unable to join us for our third Drawing Together event, here is a recap of the exercises we did together. Our host was Dana Walrath, GMIC board member, artist, writer, and medical anthropologist. Our theme was “ancestors.” Our warm up exercise borrowed from Lynda Barry’s workshop called “Writing the Unthinkable” that she offered at our Dundee Graphic Medicine conference in 2016. You can find the exercise online here. Introduction from Dana: We draw spirals to unleash the subconscious and let words and stories begin to flow. Unthinkable referred to stuff you didn’t really know was there…. Read More
Call for Comics for a Graphic Mundi COVID-19 Anthology
Full call information can be found here: http://www.psupress.org/COVID-19_ComicsAnthology.html Call for Comics for a COVID-19 Anthology As COVID-19 moves swiftly across the globe, most of us find ourselves in an unfathomable state of being—something we’d never believed possible, a true reality check. For those of us who look to comics as a way to think things through in times of uncertainty, to comprehend and to empathize, we have begun planning the publication of a curated anthology of COVID-19 comics for release in early 2021, when we’ll launch the Graphic Mundi imprint of Penn State University Press. The anthology will include short comics from writers and artists… Read More
Call for Collaboration: #medicineonthewalls
[logo – Ryder] 1. The project Here’s the TLDR in case you can’t wait / don’t have the time / like to have things said. #medicineonthewalls (see the PRSC newsletter above) are looking for collaborators in other cities around the world. We want to write a sentence, which responds to the current pandemic, a word or so per wall per city, all on the same day, and to timelapse (with sound) the process. (Time zones and local stay home policies may complicate things.) We want to make a statement in… Read More
#medicineonthewalls
You may remember Ian Williams’s graphic medicine mural executed by object… at the People’s Republic of Stokes Croft, last year. In the last week or two PRSC have been collaborating with Dr John Lee of the University of Bristol @UoBrisIBAMH, on a COVID-19 #medicineonthewalls project. Using their outdoor gallery wall, and their street-art friends, they are making a video-graff message of public health – with their own take. The designs are available for circulation if @UoBrisIBAMH are credited. Starting with ‘♥ to our NHS Heroes’ by object… (covered by the Guardian, Telegraph and Bristol Live), the wall was painted over three times… Read More
Drawing Together Week 2: Animals
In case you were unable to join our second Drawing Together event, here is a recap of the exercise we did together. Our host was Shelley Wall, GMIC board member, medical illustrator, and an assistant professor in the Biomedical Communications graduate program at the University of Toronto (UofT). Our theme was “animals”. We started with a brief update of our Zoom skills, taught by these two companion animals. From Shelley: Marcus Bullock, in the collection Representing Animals, writes: “What do we see when we look at an animal?… [I]n this moment of our present history, we have begun to… Read More
Drawing Together Week 1: The Age of Covid-19
In case you were unable to join our first Drawing Together event, check out the images below to see what we did. Special thanks to Marek Bennett for the basic structure of the exercise. If you want to share your drawings, and see ones participants shared from this past Sunday’s session, check out #DrawingTogetherGM on your favorite social media outlets. We will be doing this again next week! For details see this post. To watch the video where Marek Bennett explains the comic this exercise is based on, watch this video.
Guest Post: Native American artists respond to COVID-19, Naomi Bishop
As a medical librarian, I know that the information about COVID-19 is overwhelming, so the information most important to families and communities is something that should be highlighted and shared often. Communication about the Novel Coronavirus pandemic of 2020 sheds light on how comics help communities in different areas. Native American communities across the US are not immune to the pandemic. As cases are rising in tribal communities, many nations have announced stay at home orders for citizens and are preparing for the worst outcomes. In response, Native artists and creators have put their energy into creating art that… Read More
Drawing Together
The Graphic Medicine international conference organizers will be launching a free weekly virtual meet-up called “Drawing Together.” We will provide a Zoom link, a topic, and a group facilitator. All in the world-wide Graphic Medicine community are welcome to join us to chat, draw, support one another, and share. What: Drawing Together Virtual Meet-ups Where: Zoom link to be provided (free!) Who: All members and guests of the graphic medicine global community How: Email comicnurse@mac.com to register. Participants will receive a Zoom link at least 15 minutes prior to session start. When: Sundays, starting April 5, 4 pm GMT/noon Eastern/11am Central/9am Pacific (or convert to your time… Read More
A Journey to Motherhood by Camille Aubry – Chapter 7
Graphic Medicine is very proud to present the seventh chapter of Camille Aubry’s A Journey to Motherhood. This is a part-memoir part-fiction comic book depicting the fun and less-fun bits of maternity, from pregnancy to the toddler years, told with dry, and at times caustic, humour. Read Chapter 6 here. Visit Camille’s website. Follow Camille on Instagram. Camille Aubry is a French graphic artist based in Bristol. She graduated as an architect in Paris before completing an MA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts. Camille works as a live illustrator (scribe), documenting events, conferences, seminars, concerts, meetings, presentations and pitches with… Read More
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