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This Week in Graphic Medicine (8/23/2019)

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‘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… Whether you made it to Brighton for this year’s conference or watched from afar, you won’t want to miss the latest Graphic Medicine podcast: a recording of Meg-John Barker’s fabulous keynote address. Articles & More…  CFP: Drawing the Human: Law, Comics, Justice Kickstarter: Living With Cancer: Our Stories Webcomic: Mardou: Day One You can also find days two through five here…. Read More

Conference Keynote: Meg-John Barker

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Welcome to the first of two keynote addresses from the 2019 Graphic Medicine conference, the theme of which was, “Queerying Graphic Medicine: Paradigms, Power, and Practice.” Conference co-host Dr. Muna Al-Jawad created a comic which appeared in the program to say more about that theme:  Meg-John Barker’s keynote address fits perfectly with this framing of our conference and our work in Graphic Medicine. Meg-John is the author of a number of popular books on sex, gender, and relationships, including Queer: A Graphic History, How to Understand your Gender, Life isn’t Binary, Enjoy Sex (How, When, and IF You Want To),… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (8/16/2019)

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‘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… My pick of the week is this much-needed scholarly comic – Writing medical comics – by the always great Miriam Waite. As I noted on Twitter, there has been a lot of conversation about the need for guidance on just how to develop medical comics, but thus far those conversations have led to little. Hopefully this is a change in that… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (8/9/2019)

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‘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’ve come across two comics that strike me as near-required reading. [Both are potentially triggering.] First, this webcomic by Julia Wertz – Things You Might Not Know About Miscarriage. Second, this webcomic by Kailin Walker & Kerry Wineberg – What is Kindness?. Articles & More…  CFP: Comics and Technology: 3rd Annual Conference of the Comics Study Society CFP: Call… Read More

Call for Abstracts: British Society of Aesthetics Conference: Art, Aesthetics, and the Medical and Health Humanities (Kent, 7-9 Feb 2020)

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The Aesthetics Research Centre at The University of Kent invites abstracts for: British Society of Aesthetics Conference: Art, Aesthetics, and the Medical and Health Humanities https://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/newsandevents/index.html?view=2574 7–9 February 2020, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. This conference will bring together Analytic Aesthetics and the Medical and Health Humanities. These disciplines share important core concerns and have much to offer one another. The medical and health humanities explore the role of the humanities – and especially the arts – in medicine, medical education and healthcare. In the process they engage with many topics that are central to analytic aesthetics, including narrative, creativity, imagination,… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (8/2/2019)

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‘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… The latest from Anita Ravi, MD, exploring homelessness in medicine: Patients Facing Homelessness Need More Than Referrals. Reminder: TWIGM was on hiatus throughout July and I do not back-log for the posts – thank you for understanding! Special Note… As you likely already know, The Nib, one of the most regular outlets for graphic medicine webcomics, is losing their funding as of… Read More

Graphic Medicine Conference – Live Scribing by Camille Aubry

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Our Graphic Medicine conference – Que(e)rying Graphic Medicine : Paradigms, Practices and Power – was held in Brighton last week. It was a great success. The magic was there again this year, as it has been at all the previous conferences. We engaged Camille Aubry to live scribe the proceedings. Camille is a French illustrator and comic book artist based in Bristol. She graduated as an architect in Paris before completing an MA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts. Through her artwork Camille likes to document stories of activism, whether they are born in the streets or at home,… Read More

CALL FOR PAPERS – Graphic Medicine – A Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly

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Guest Editors: Erin La Cour (Free University of Amsterdam) and Anna Poletti (Utrecht University) Submit: Abstracts of 300–500 words in length by September 15, 2019 to biographygraphicmedicine@gmail.com. In recent years, Graphic Medicine has emerged as an important movement in changing attitudes to patient experience within the practice of Western medicine. Combining insights from life writing and comics studies, Graphic Medicine texts and scholarship evidence the efficacy of life narrative in the medium of comics for opening up new channels of communication between medical staff, patients, their loved ones, and the community; providing alternative sites for community building among patients and… Read More

Spotlight: Alex Combs

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  Zine Making with Elders by Alex L. Combs It’s not often that artists are blessed with the elusive ‘lightning bolt’ of inspiration, but this was one of those rare moments. I am a graduate student currently earning an MFA with a specialty in Comics. Through my graduate program, I was connected with a company that serves older adults throughout the S.F. Bay Area in California. When I was hired as a “community engagement coordinator”, I admittedly had no idea what I would actually be doing. I spend the majority of my free time hunched over my drawing desk, and… Read More

Graphic Medicine 2019 Poster Specifications

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I thought I would post the poster specifications for the conference here. Posters should be formatted as below (or approximate these measurements if printers do not hold A1 paper stock)  A1 841 x 594 mm 33.1 x 23.4in    Portrait orientation Posters will be displayed on vertical boards, secured with thumb tacks or with adhesive putty, so you can bring them to the conference rolled in a tube.  Most people create the posters digitally and have them printed, but, in keeping with the Graphic Medicine ethos, handmade/drawn/painted is OK, too.