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On Sunday, May 29 the Drawing Together community again gathered. Our session was led by Esther Bendit Saltzman PhD, BSN. Esther is the nursing liaison for the Graphic Medicine International Collective. Combining her background in nursing with her love of literature, she has taught Graphic Medicine courses at the Memphis College of Art and most recently at California State University, Los Angeles, where she is lecturer faculty in the department of English. Esther also co-edited, with Stephen Tabachnick, Drawn from the Classics: Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literary Works, and she contributed a chapter to his edited volume, The Cambridge… Read More

guest post by Kimberly Ho,  NYU Long Island School of Medicine/NYU Langone Health My name is Kimberly Ho, and I am pursuing my medical degree at NYU Long Island School of Medicine. “Grandpa’s Deterioration” is a reflection piece of mine and captures part of my grandpa’s aging experience. This work focuses on a short time period during the pandemic, between June to August 2020. Making this comic changed many of my perceptions of what was happening to my grandfather. Instead of thinking of his aging as a downfall and depicting the things he progressively lost, I chose to appreciate a different… Read More

Following two public forums on Comics for Blind and Low Vision Readers, SF State’s Accessible Comics Collective seeks proposals from individuals or teams to produce comics in accessible formats. We welcome submissions that: Adapt a traditional comic into an accessible version for blind and low vision readers, either from an existing comic or one created for the purpose of this charrette; or Produce a new comic that is “born accessible.” Recognizing that no one size fits all, applicants may consider multiple approaches to accessibility such as but not limited to: Physical and/or digital media that promote nonvisual engagement; Multimodal interactions via… Read More

The journal Academic Medicine announces their second annual call for the Cover Art feature, opening June 1. Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of experts in art and medicine. They are seeking original works of art that should be inspired by, but not necessarily representative of, an academic medicine experience from any perspective: caregiver, researcher, teacher, learner, or patient. The journal welcomes photography, sculpture, painting, textile work, and other visual media. For more information, details are here.

From the beginning of our discussions about the 2022 Graphic Medicine Conference, we have been committed to making the conference available remotely as well as in person. As part of that effort, we would like to let you know the plan for integrating and involving remote presentations this year. We received far too many excellent submissions to afford each of them a timeslot in our conference. But we did not want to reject quality presentations. So we have devised a compromise: for those of you who opted for remote presentations, your presentation will be done via pre recorded video. We will… Read More

The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) is thrilled to announce the shortlist  for the inaugural Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) Award for the outstanding health-related comic project completed and/or published in 2021. This award is made possible by a generous matching gift in Honor of Nancy and Herbert Wolf, and is intended to honor and carry on their legacy of service and care. You can read more about Nancy and Herbert here.  The entries were wide-ranging in form, length, geographical origin, and topic, but they had one thing in common: they revealed deep engagement with highly meaningful subjects. The GMIC… Read More