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This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/29 – 4/5/19)

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‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week I want to draw your attention to a couple of comics published in The Nib that you might not normally consider when thinking about graphic medicine. The first, titled It’s Time to Rethink How Recycling is Done is a depressing look by cartoonist Katie Wheeler at… Read More

Conference Registration is open

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Conference registration for the 2019 International Graphic Medicine Conference in Brighton is now open. We had a phenomenal response to our call for papers with over 150 proposals from 22 countries. Abstracts were selected by a team of seven people. One of the selectors, Profession Susan Squier commented: “Things have gone to another level with regards to the standard of proposals for this conference. The field is maturing. We had so many excellent proposals, some of which critique the field” The link for registration is HERE.  There are 100 earlybird places available at £100, after which the price goes up… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/15 – 3/22/19)

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‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week, a turn toward the less explicitly medical for my picks – two webcomics that deal with different aspects of sexism. One is actually a couple of years old but recently made the rounds again – and speaks to me a great deal – is by… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/8/19)

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‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week, I want to encourage you to read Food Used to Be a Lot More Dangerous – a brilliant comic on by Whit Taylor and Maki Naro about the history of the FDA, posted on The Nib. Public health comics are something I am hoping we… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/1/19)

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‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… My pick this week is short: go read through the entire #WomenonPanels feed on Twitter and then make every effort to expand your inclusion of voices in comics work. You’ll find quite a few familiar folks from graphic medicine and I suspect everyone will learn about someone… Read More

Doc-Related: A satirical comic on the challenges of practicing medicine today as seen through the eyes of physicians working in a large health care system

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Guest Post by Peter Valenzuela, MD I’ve been a practicing family physician for almost two decades. In the past that would be considered “mid-career” for a doctor. But today, it’s quite a feat. Recent statistics show that over half of the one million active physicians in the U.S. show signs of burnout[1]. Many are opting to leave the profession. When I began practice, I was the medical director of a rural clinic in West Texas, performing the full scope of family medicine that included: ambulatory clinic, inpatient care, emergency room, nursing home and even home visits. I delivered babies, performed… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (2/15 – 2/22/19)

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‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… First, apologies for a lack of an update last week – as many of you know, I live with chronic pain, generally focused on my left leg. It dictates how much energy I have on any given day and sometimes that means doing less, including digital things…. Read More

New Podcast: Reconciling the Public and Private in Health Comics with Whit Taylor

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The episode opens with Alice Jaggers and host MK Czerwiec discussing Graphic Medicine News. That segment is followed by Whit Taylor‘s keynote address from the 2018 Comics & Medicine conference in White River Junction, Vermont. NOTE: The comics Whit mentions are linked below. Whit is a cartoonist, writer, editor, and public health educator. She has a BA in cultural anthropology from Brown University and received an MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Boston University School of Public Health. Her comics have been published by The Nib, The New Yorker, Illustrated PEN and others.   America Isn’t Ready For a Pandemic, The… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (2/8/19)

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‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… My pick this week isn’t strictly speaking graphic medicine, but rather, a highlighting of a similar discipline, with a great deal of overlap: Graphic Justice. You may already be familiar with this idea – they have had a website, a listserv, and a Twitter page for some time… Read More

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

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‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Special Note… I am stepping in again for Matthew. Congratulations again on the nuptials, Matthew! – Alice Jaggers Alice’s Pick of the Week… This week I am using this space to call out Side Defects. There is a Kickstarter for this book that I am pretty excited about. It is “a book… Read More