New discount! Our Bookshop.org affiliate commission has been upgraded to 15% for all of June! Check out any of our specially curated lists, or focus on our LGBTQ+ lists for Pride Month! Speaking of queer comics, the documentary NO STRAIGHT LINES is streaming for free on PBS from June 1-30 in celebration of this year’s Pride Month. 2017 Graphic Medicine keynote Rupert Kinnard is featured in the film as well as many others. From the PBS website, “When Alison Bechdel received a coveted MacArthur Award for her best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home, it heralded the acceptance of LGBTQ+ comics in American… Read More
Crafting Contention through MadZines: Helen Spandler in conversation with Meg-John Barker
The MadZines research project is exploring how zines craft contention about mental health knowledge and practice. One of the purposes of the project is to explore the potential of zines to foster dialogue about contested issues in mental health. As part of this, the project team are having a series of dialogues with Mad-Zinesters (people who create and share zines about madness and distress). In the following extract from one of these conversations, Helen Spandler (HS) talks to Meg-John Barker (MJB) about how the comic graphics in their zines ‘craft contention’ about mental health. HS: Can you remember how… Read More
Spotlight on José Alaniz’s The Phantom Zone and Other Stories: Comics and Prose
The Phantom Zone and Other Stories: Comics and Prose collects the title story, which first appeared as a comic strip in the Daily Texan, the student newspaper of the University of Texas, Austin in the 1990s, along with more recent material. Alaniz, a comics scholar and professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature (adjunct) at the University of Washington, Seattle, has previously published Death, Disability and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond (University Press of Mississippi, 2014) and with Scott T. Smith co-edited Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019), among… 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
A Journey to Motherhood by Camille Aubry – Chapter 5
Graphic Medicine is very proud to present the fifth chapter of Camille Aubry’s A Journey to Motherhood.This is an autobiographical comic book diary 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 4 here. Read Chapter 6 => 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 scribe, documenting events, conferences, seminars, concerts, meetings, presentations and… Read More
A Journey to Motherhood by Camille Aubry – Chapter 4
Graphic Medicine is very proud to present the fourth chapter of Camille Aubry’s A Journey to Motherhood.This is an autobiographical comic book diary 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 3 here. Read Chapter Five > Next installment will be posted on the 27th of January. 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… Read More
A Journey to Motherhood by Camille Aubry – Chapter 3
Graphic Medicine is very proud to present the third chapter of Camille Aubry’s A Journey to Motherhood.This is an autobiographical comic book diary 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 2 here. Read Chapter 4 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 scribe, documenting events, conferences, seminars, concerts, meetings, presentations and… Read More
Graphic Medicine Introducing: Camille Aubry, A Journey to Motherhood.
Graphic Medicine is very proud to present Camille Aubry’s A Journey to Motherhood. This is an autobiographical comic book diary depicting the fun and less-fun bits of maternity, from pregnancy to the toddler years, told with dry, and at times caustic, humour. This graphic narrative has been twice long-listed for the Laydeez do Comics Prize and was exhibited at the Representing Realness show in London this summer. A black & white extract of 32 pages, which has since sold out, was launched at the ELCAF festival this year. Graphic Medicine will be showing A Journey to Motherhood, one chapter at at time, in… Read More
Expanding Literacy in the Classroom – Richard Jaggers
Hello! My name is Richard Jaggers, and I am currently a Master’s student in teaching. After I gave my lightning talk, Expanding Literacy in the Classroom: Integrating Graphic Medicine in Primary and Secondary School Environments, at the Graphic Medicine Conference 2019 in Brighton, I was asked about writing a blog post for this site. Plenty of people have talked about integrating graphic medicine into academic environments before, but the majority of these discussions focus on medical schools and universities. I want to be even more aggressive, bringing graphic medicine into schools at all levels, even down to elementary. The understanding… Read More
Graphic Medicine Conference – Live Scribing by Camille Aubry
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