UK graphic medicine folks! Make a note of this London live event by our friends, LDComics. On Thursday, 15th of October at the Cartoon Museum. One of the speakers is Hayley Gullen, who recently published her graphic memoir, This might surprise you: a breast cancer story, which was shortlisted for the Graphic Medicine book awards this year. As well as charting moments of her journey, there are some insightful reflections about health in the UK and the dynamics between patient and healthcare workers. The event is at the wonderful Cartoon Museum. If you are in or around London this is a great… Read More
Call for chapter contributions: Public Health Humanities: tools for learning and practice
We invite proposals for contributions to a new ‘toolkit’ (or textbook) for learning and practice in the field of public health humanities. The toolkit will contain guidance for practical activities that develop or deploy humanities skills for public health, and will be published as an interactive e-book and in print. One-page proposals for contributions are welcomed from scholars, teachers, or practitioners anywhere in the world, with backgrounds in arts, humanities, social sciences or public health. Innovative formats or modes of presentation (such as graphic treatments) for the one-page proposal are welcome and encouraged. Please see this link for the full… Read More
Spotlight: Adrift on a Painted Sea, by Tim Bird. Kickstarter.
Name: Tim Bird Website: www.timothybird.co.uk Instagram: @timothybird Publisher: Avery Hill Publishing AHP website: www.averyhillpublishing.com AHP Instagram: @averyhillpublishing Kickstarter campaign: Adrift on a Painted Sea My name’s Tim Bird – I’m an illustrator from Winchester in the UK. I’ve been making and self-publishing comics for around 10 years, and published a graphic novel called The Great North Wood with Avery Hill Publishing in 2018. My new graphic novel, called Adrift on a Painted Sea, is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter by Avery Hill Publishing. The book is about my mum – her love of painting and of the sea. She had been painting all… Read More
New This Week
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
Spotlight: Sarc, by Cole Henley
Sarc is a short comic I did to try and communicate my experiences late in 2019 when I was diagnosed with Sarcoidosis. I wanted to convey some of the medical journey but also my personal experiences and the impact on those around me. The comic is deliberately left open ended because diagnosis for many is just the start of a journey, especially with chronic illnesses. I (Cole Henley) am a web developer, illustrator and recovering archaeologist from Somerset. You can find out more about me over on my website: https://cole007.net/
My Rights in the Maternity System: A feminist graphic zine inspired by The Freebirth Study
Guest post by Gemma McKenzie “[T]hey just wanted me to be a faceless person, who would lie down and let them do what they wanted me to do… I feel like our whole system feeds into us being obedient, submissive, good girls, and other people taking what’s rightfully ours…” These are the words of an interviewee from my recent study on freebirthing in the UK. I had interviewed sixteen women about their experiences of intentionally giving birth without doctors or midwives present. These were not stories of fast labours and failed attempts to get to the hospital in time; these… Read More
Graphic Medicine for Contact Tracing – Call for collaboration
Graphic Medicine for Contact Tracing We are seeking an artist to collaborate with our research team to produce a public-facing graphic medicine output about public health efforts in contact tracing during the pandemic. We are University of Cambridge-based social researchers who have been collaborating closely with public health experts and community organizations in Hackney since mid-2020. Our project seeks to better understand the successes and challenges of the use of traditional and digital contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic by collecting and analysing insights from community leaders, community residents, and public health practitioners. The project focuses on the London Borough… Read More
The Silent Why Podcast interviews Carol Tyler about grief
The Silent Why podcast is on a mission to talk about loss and grief and are looking for 101 different types of loss, chatting to people who have been through them to see if it’s possible to find hope in each sort of loss. They interviewed Carol Tyler about her latest project, ‘Griefville’ and the death of her husband, Justin Green (Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary). Click the image above to listen.
Online Research Seminar – Free Registration
On Monday 25th of April Monica Lalanda and Ian Williams will take part in an online research seminar about Graphic Medicine organised by RACSS – the Research & Comics seminar series. They will be discussing the graphic medicine movement in the UK and Spain. Lily Daniels will be the graphic recorder for the day. The event is online and free but registration is needed. https://lnkd.in/dgwdarwP Registration grants access to the recorded seminar in case attendees would like to view it at another time instead of live. RACSS is a collaboration between Lydia Wysocki (Newcastle University), Jorge Catalá (Newcastle University) and… Read More
Medical Humanities online conference with free registration.
Please see the online conference on Medical Humanities below. Registration is free. There are sessions devoted to graphic and narrative medicine. Registration is open until April 8, 2022: https://qatar-weill.cornell.edu/event/medical-humanities-in-the-middle-east/schedule
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