Katie Green speaks on some of the common misconceptions surrounding eating disorders and sexual abuse, drawing on examples from her graphic-memoir-in- progress. Katie’s talk is followed by a Q&A with Andrew Godfrey. Katie Green is a freelance illustrator based in Bristol. She self-publishes a regular zine, the Green Bean, and is currently working on her first graphic novel. Lighter Than My Shadow, a graphic memoir of eating disorders, sexual abuse and recovery, will be published by Jonathan Cape in Autumn 2013. katie@katiegreen.co.uk www.katiegreen.co.uk
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Karrie Fransman and The House That Groaned
Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. Karrie Fransman is a comic creator who lives in London. Her autobiographical comic strips have been published in The Guardian. Her comic serial, “The Night I Lost My Love” ran in The Times. Her new book, The House That Groaned is available from Square Peg. You can watch a fun video about the book here. You can see more of Karrie’s work at www.karriefransman.com
Andrew Godfrey, Breaking down the poster child syndrome: Autobiographical comics about living with cystic fibrosis
Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. “There are people who may think that graphic memoirs about death, disease, and mental health problems…are nothing but depressing affairs. But for me, these memoirs are filled with laughter and hope and paint a much more fully formed picture of what its like to live with illness, better than any poster child can hope to portray. They remind us that even those who are meant to be unemotional, unbiased, and strong, such as doctors, are… Read More
Sarah Leavitt on Tangles: Documenting a family’s struggle with alzheimer’s disease through comics
Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. In a panel moderated by Maria Vacarella, Vancouver writer and cartoonist Sarah Leavitt delivers her talk, “Documenting a Family’s Struggles with Alzheimer’s Disease: Using Comics to Break Through Stigma and Silence.” Sarah discusses three areas of stigma explored through comics in her book Tangles – anger and bad behavior, bodily functions, and sexuality. Her talk is followed by excerpts from the panel Q&A .
The Graphic Medicine Podcast
Exciting news! There is now a Graphic Medicine Podcast! Initial episodes will contain talks from the recent conference in Leeds. After those are live, episodes will focus on planning for the 2012 conference in Toronto, interviews with creators and academics on developments in the Graphic Medicine universe — and anything else you might want to hear discussed. We are open to ideas, so please don’t hesitate to suggest topics for future listening. Subscribe to the new Graphic Medicine Podcast here!
Introduction to Comics Forum Graphic Medicine Day by Ian Williams
Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. On 17 November, 2011, a one-day conference on Graphic Medicine was held at the Leeds Art Gallery. It was the second day of Comics Forum 2011, organized by Ian Hague. All of the conference audio will also be available here. In the coming weeks, we will be posting many of the wonderful talks. In this episode, North Wales physician Ian Williams, curator of the Graphic Medicine website, and organizer of the Graphic Medicine day of Comics Forum,… Read More
2012 Conference Announcement and Call for Papers!
Comics & Medicine: Navigating the Margins 22-24 July 2012 Toronto, Canada Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Biomedical Communications Program, University of Toronto Office of the Vice-Principal, Research, University of Toronto Mississauga The third international interdisciplinary conference* on comics and medicine will continue to explore the intersection of sequential visual arts and medicine. This year we will highlight perspectives that are often under-represented in graphic narratives, such as depictions of the Outsider or Other in the context of issues such as barriers to healthcare, the stigma of mental illness and disability, and the silent burden of caretaking. The conference will… Read More
Emmanuelle Guibert's 'The Photographer': New Paper on the Comics Forum Website
Comics Forum director Ian Hague has emailed to say that he has posted a new paper by Isabelle Delorme on the website. The title is The first Afghanistan war through the glare of the Photographer and Emmanuelle Guibert and the paper was presented at the conference Comics & Conflicts: Stories of War in Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga 19/08/2011 – 20/08/2011 at the Imperial War Museum, London. I’m posting it here because of the medical relevance of Guibert’s Graphic Novel. Here is the abstract: The Afghanistan war (1979-1989) is not the subject of the graphic novel : The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders but… Read More
One More Thing
As I mentioned, I’ve been editing audio from the Leeds Comics Forum Graphic Medicine conference all day. So eager to share these with you soon. Until then, thought many of you might be interested to see what Nicola Streeten’s tap-dancing looks like on audio. And the applause that followed, naturally.
More on Leeds and Beyond
Andrew Godfrey (Sicker than Thou, The CF Diaries) has done a wonderful report on the Graphic Medicine conference on his blog. Thriving, eclectic, warm, encouraging, inspiring, and with plenty of laughs to be had, this open discourse between artists, academics, and health care professionals is surely an optimistic sign of the times. Thanks, Andrew – and not just because you said nice & helpful things about my talk. (But that’s certainly not discouraged. I had an artist patient who once told me, “I show my work to other people so they can tell me what they see.” I very much had that… Read More