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Iggy and The Inhalers: asthma education through comics

Jan. 13, 2015 by Ian Williams

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  Longtime collaborators in Graphic Medicine, Alex Thomas and Gary Ashwal have had their asthma education comic, Iggy and The Inhalers, printed. Graphic Medicine is eagerly awaiting a copy. In the mean time, the collaborative duo have put the whole thing online here. The website teaches kids with asthma about asthma symptoms, asthma treatment, and asthma medications using comics, videos, and free downloads. Considering he is a board-certified pediatric allergist, and has spent a good deal of his adult life treating sick children, Alex Thomas, MD is a ridiculously good draughtsman. I’m jealous of his drawing skills. Gary and Alex… Read More

Categories: comic strip, comics, Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, drawing, Health Education Tags: Alex Thomas, allergy, asthma, Gary Ashwal, Iggy & The Inhalers

George McBean – Where to Draw the Line.

Mar. 23, 2014 by Ian Williams

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George McBean has been producing work for UNICEF for over 36 years, using his skill in the popularising of scientifically proven health information to produce graphic art to be used in the prevention of disease. He has spoken widely about the use of comics and graphics in health education.   It is clear that George was involved in the work that we have, latterly, called Graphic Medicine, for many years, way before this website was launched and it was marvellous to hear from him when he got in touch after reading the recent BBC article. George was kind enough to write the… Read More

Categories: comic strip, comics, Comics and Medicine, drawing, Health Education, NGOs Tags: George McBean, HIV/AIDS, UNICEF

Dr Kwak has gone Quackers

Jan. 18, 2014 by Ian Williams

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Kun Kwak is a F2 doctor in Ophthalmology at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He is writing a comic called Dr Quack about his experiences as a junior doc. He contacted me to find out more about Graphic Medicine and we met up and chatted over a coffee. He hails from Korea and his comics, illustrated by a friend, are rendered in a manwha style. Last week he gave a presentation at the Grand Round in the hospital and blew the judges away, winning first prize. See the report of his presentation here. See Kun’s work on Facebook.  

Categories: comic strip, Comics and Medicine, Webcomics Tags: Dr Quack, Kun Kwak

Look Straight Ahead

Jul. 30, 2013 by Ian Williams

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Elaine Will is a Canadian cartoonist who just completed a graphic novel entitled ‘Look Straight Ahead’ about a teen boy’s struggle with depression/bipolar disorder. You can read it online here, for the time being: http://blog.e2w-illustration.com It’s been getting rave reviews…Kevin Bramer of Optical Sloth said “for a first graphic novel, it’s damn near perfect” and that it was “required reading for anyone who knows someone dealing with mental illness.” It’s also in the current Diamond Previews catalogue. If it gets enough orders, it will be officially released in print form in November. Elaine is also planning another graphic novel that… Read More

Categories: comic strip, comics, Comics and Medicine, Webcomics Tags: bipolar disorder, depression, Elaine Will, manic depression

Invisible Injury

Jun. 24, 2013 by Ian Williams

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Thanks to Andrew Godfrey for flagging up this comic about PTSD. Click on the image to follow the link.

Categories: comic strip, Comics and Medicine, Webcomics Tags: mental health, PTSD, soldiers, war

Med Comic

Jun. 23, 2013 by Ian Williams

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Jorge Muniz is the artist/author of “Med”, an educational webcomic for any student in the field of medicine. Short, single panel snippets of information to enable students to remember vital information. He updates the comic at least once a week  

Categories: comic strip, Comics and Medicine, Webcomics Tags: Jorge Muniz, Med, Med Comic

Whizzkids United

Jun. 7, 2013 by Ian Williams

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Dr Lisa El Refaie has set up a collaborative project between Cardiff University’s Centre for Language and Communication Research and South African charity Whizzkids United, to produce a comic book in which teenagers tell their own stories to support HIV/AIDS education. The charity’s main programme involves using football training as a metaphor for how to keep safe from HIV, but they wanted to find new ways of attracting young people to their Health Academy, which offers counselling, HIV tests, and general social and medical support.     Together they decided to run a series of comics drawing workshops, so that… Read More

Categories: comic strip, comics, Comics and Medicine, Health Education Tags: health education comics, HIV, Lisa El Refaie, Steve Marchant, Whizzkids United

New Podcast: Comics & Medicine in the Mainstream

Jan. 30, 2013 by Comic Nurse

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This is Panel 13 from last summer’s Comics & Medicine conference in Toronto. In this episode we will hear from three speakers in two presentations. Both will address medically-relevant themes as they have appeared in mainstream media 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. “Facing” illness: what the “funnies” can teach us about caregiver role, response, and needs Sarah Russe and Judith Kaplan-Weinger An overt focus on the effects of illness is still rare in mainstream syndicated comics. One of the… Read More

Categories: comic strip, Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Graphic Novels, papers, Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012, Uncategorized Tags: adoption, Between Friends, breast cancer, caregiver, caregiver needs, caregiving, discourse analysis, domestic abuse, Funky Winkerbean, infertility, infertility treatment, Lisa's Story, mainstream comics, mammogram, Sandra Bell Lundy, sociolinguistics, Tom Batiuk, visual semiotics

New Podcast: Graphic Fiction

Jan. 18, 2013 by Comic Nurse

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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. This panel from the 2012 Toronto Comics & Medicine conference was moderated by Shelley Wall. First up is Steven Bergson, an administrator in the Research Department of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and  Vice-President of the Ontario chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries. He also maintains three blogs on the subject of the representation of Jews and Israelis in comix, including this one. Of his presentation, “From Ivanhoe to Rex Mundi: Jews and Medicine in Comic Books, Comic… Read More

Categories: comic strip, comics, Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012, Uncategorized Tags: Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol, Jeffrey Monk, jewish, jews, Lorenzo Servitje, Penn State College of Medicine, Steven Bergson

Life on the List

Dec. 1, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Via Karen Green at Comic Adventures in Academia, a comic about getting a new heart by Houston artist Michael Bise. Chapter one is here and chapter two is here.

Categories: comic strip, Webcomics Tags: cardiac, heart failure, heart transplant, Michael Bise, organ transplant

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