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. 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 a scribe, documenting events,… 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
Graphic Medicine Toronto 2020 conference dates.
The 2020 Graphic Medicine Conference will be held July 16 – 19, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada! This year’s theme will invite you to reflect on Graphic Medicine In/During Troubled Times: Social Justice and Human Rights. We will have the Call For Papers out by the 1st of December. Please keep an eye on the conference page. When referring to the conference on social media, please use the hashtag #GraphMed2020
Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition
The Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition 2020 is now open to submissions. The deadline for entries is 28 February 2020. The competition is for a graphic novel-in-progress and is open to all cartoonists, and writers and artists working as a team, who have not previously published a full-length graphic work, and who currently reside in the UK. The winner will be offered the opportunity to develop their work-in-progress with Myriad’s creative and editorial team with a view to being offered a contract and publication. ENTER NOW Longlisted entrants will be notified by end of March 2020. Shortlisted entrants will be… Read More
Call for papers – Enabling and Disability Comics for/about Young People: Within the Panels and Without. Amiens, 5th June 2020
From Lisa El Refaie: In 2020, Amiens will be the European Youth Capital (Amiens for Youth). On that occasion and for the year of Comics, the University of Picardy is organizing, in association with the universities of Artois, Lille and Brighton, and with the association “On a marché sur la bulle” a three-day interdisciplinary conference on “Comics and Youth” on 3rd, 4th and 5th June 2020. The research group CORPUS (Conflict, Representation and Dialogue in the English-speaking World, EA 4295) of the University of Picardy is planning an international study day on the representation of disability in comics about and/or… 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
CALL FOR PAPERS – Graphic Medicine – A Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Guest Editors: Erin La Cour (Free University of Amsterdam) and Anna Poletti (Utrecht University) Submit: Abstracts of 300–500 words in length by September 15, 2019 to biographygraphicmedicine@gmail.com. In recent years, Graphic Medicine has emerged as an important movement in changing attitudes to patient experience within the practice of Western medicine. Combining insights from life writing and comics studies, Graphic Medicine texts and scholarship evidence the efficacy of life narrative in the medium of comics for opening up new channels of communication between medical staff, patients, their loved ones, and the community; providing alternative sites for community building among patients and… Read More
Graphic Medicine 2019 Poster Specifications
I thought I would post the poster specifications for the conference here. Posters should be formatted as below (or approximate these measurements if printers do not hold A1 paper stock) A1 841 x 594 mm 33.1 x 23.4in Portrait orientation Posters will be displayed on vertical boards, secured with thumb tacks or with adhesive putty, so you can bring them to the conference rolled in a tube. Most people create the posters digitally and have them printed, but, in keeping with the Graphic Medicine ethos, handmade/drawn/painted is OK, too.
CFP – Studies in Comics – Special Issue on Comics and Education
deadline for submissions: November 1, 2019 full name / name of organization: Studies in Comics contact email: studiesincomics@googlemail.com Special Issue 11.1: Comics and Education Articles are invited for a special issue of Studies in Comics (11.1) on the theme of Comics and Education. Comics have enjoyed a resurgence in the classroom as educators, creators, and scholars have come to recognise the diverse ways in which the medium can be used to support literacy, communication skills, and creativity. Significantly, the use of comics for and as education also promotes cross-medial learning, as readers may use the form as a starting point for further… Read More
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