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 this week’s podcast, we go casual. Perhaps too casual. Here are excerpts from a conversation MK Czerwiec & Ian Williams had with Professor Mita Mahato from the University of Puget Sound in March. Enjoy (or please forgive) what Ian refers to as “naff background music” and other assorted restaurant noises. The conversation is set over dessert in a villa of Chicago’s legendary Italian Village Restaurant, open since 1927. Also requiring forgiveness will be my inappropriate… Read More
A Conversation with Susan Squier
Today’s podcast conversation is with Susan Squier, PhD, Brill Professor of English, Women’s Studies, and Science,Technology and Society Studies at Penn State University. Susan’s teaching and scholarship includes several articles on the use of comics in the medical context. You can download PDFs of some of Susan’s comics scholarship here. In this conversation, we discuss how Susan began working with comics, how she feels comics and medicine are connected, and her hopes for the future of the Graphic Medicine movement. Susan will be presenting on “Studio Time in the Literature and Medicine Classroom” with colleagues at the 2012 Comics &… Read More
A Conversation With Linda Raphael
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 this conversation, Linda Raphael of George Washington Medical School discusses her work in Graphic Medicine and Medical Humanities. Linda is a professor of English and director of the Medical Humanities program, which she founded, at George Washington University Medical School. Linda will be participating in a panel discussion at the 2012 Graphic Medicine conference in Toronto this July. Linda presented her paper,”Resisting Closure in Graphic Medicine Texts” at the 2011 Graphic Medicine conference in… Read More
A Conversation with Michael Green
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 the first of a series of podcasts featuring scholars who are teaching comics in academic settings, MK talks with Michael Green. He is a doctor of internal medicine and a professor of bioethics and medical humanities at Penn State Hershey College of Medicine. Michael has pioneered an intensive course on comics and medicine that he teaches to fourth year medical students. In this course, students read and create graphic medicine texts. You can read… Read More
Ian Williams: AUTO-BIOGRAPHY AS AUTO-THERAPY IN GRAPHIC MEDICINE
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 the third and final talk of Northwestern Feinberg Medical School’s Graphic Medicine lecture series, Dr. Ian Williams discusses his paper in the current issue of the Journal of Medical Humanities as well as his own work as a comics artist. His talk questions whether or not the act of creating graphic memoir can be a cathartic experience.
Cate Belling: Gruesome, Gross, and Graphic
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. Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, recently sponsored a three-lecture series on Graphic Medicine. The second lecture in the series features Cate Belling discussing, “Gruesome, Gross, and Graphic.”
MK Czerwiec on The Sequential Art of Illness
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. Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, recently sponsored a three-lecture series on Graphic Medicine. The first of these lectures features MK Czerwiec introducing the field, highlighting some texts, and going on about how everyone should draw more. Introduction by Cate Belling, great comments after the talk from MA/MD students, also Riva Leher, Laurie Zoloth, and Katie Watson.
Darryl Cunningham on Psychiatric Tales and Science Tales
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. British Artist Darryl Cunningham, who studied at Leeds College of Art, is a prolific cartoonist who has worked for long stints as a health care assistant on an acute psychiatric ward which informed and inspired the thoughts and experiences which went into his book Psychiatric Tales. Psychiatric Tales was published by Blank Slate in the UK in 2010 and Bloomsbury in the US in 2011. It has met with wide critical acclaim. Darryl is currently… Read More
Paula Knight on The Facts of Life: a graphic memoir about miscarriage and childlessness
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. Paula uses her graphic memoir-in-progress, The Facts of Life to demonstrate visual exploration of the stigma-inducing health issues of miscarriage, resulting ‘childlessness’, and ME/CFS. Paula works from her home studio in Bristol as a freelance illustrator, writer and proofreader. She divides her time between anthropomorphising animals, bemoaning the absence of Plain English in corporate literature and working on her graphic- memoir-in-progress. She’s fairly new to the world of comics, and, having worked extensively within children’s… Read More
Linda Raphael on Resisting Closure in Graphic Medicine Texts
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. Medical students have used the (currently common) term “closure” to express what they desire but find lacking in texts. While they do not always demand a “happy” ending, they at least want to feel that the text is “complete.” The graphic text, I will argue, has several advantages over traditional prose texts in resisting closure and demanding that the reader “work through” the events. One edge results from the need for the reader to fill… Read More