This week on the Graphic Medicine Podcast: author, artist, and anthropologist Dana Walrath. Segment 1: Graphic Medicine News This week the Annals of Internal Medicine posted a wonderful new comic by Sharon Rosensweig and Aaron Freeman called “The Last Ride of Mo Rosensweig” which I highly recommend. Segment 2: Dana Walrath and Aliceheimer’s Dana Walrath is a medical anthropologist, author, and artist. Her first book, Aliceheimer’s, will be published in the US by Penn State University Press. In this talk, titled “Cultural Spaces, Comics, and Contested Memories” Dana desrcibes the ways medical anthropology and comic helped her to shape a new… Read More
Carol Tyler: Bringing It All Back Home
In this week’s Graphic Medicine Podcast, Carol Tyler’s keynote address from the Graphic Medicine 2015 conference in Riverside, California. The talk is titled, “Bringing It All Back Home.” With this being the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., I thought it would be a great tie-in to post Carol’s talk in conjunction with the Great Thanksgiving Listen. Here’s a video about that project from StoryCorps: Carol Tyler’s monumental book, Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father was released this week. The process which led to the creation of this book was a monumental act of intense listening, intense caregiving,… Read More
Booster Shot Comics Take on Pediatric Pain!
Booster Shot Comics consists of cartoonist and board certified pediatric allergist Alex Thomas and health communication specialist Gary Ashwal. In this week’s episode of the Graphic Medicine Podcast, you’ll hear them discuss their comics project the Stoplight Pain Scale. This project is a great model for how to make a research-based comics-format health intervention. Keep an eye on your screens because images are dropped paired with the audio. Graphic Medicine News This week my work was focused on a presentation called “Teaching Science with Comics” I gave to the Chicago Council on Science & Technology last night. In the course of… Read More
Tyler Page: Raised on Ritalin
Today’s podcast features a presentation by cartoonist Tyler Page from the 2015 Comics & Medicine conference in Riverside, California in which he describes the ways making comics helped with his ADHD. Tyler Page is working on his first graphic memoir, Raised on Ritalin: A Medicated Memoir. He tells us how making comics helped him manage his ADHD. Keep an eye on your screens because Tyler shared his many slides, and the images are matched up to his talk. Graphic Medicine News Penn State University Press announces the release of Peter Dunlop Shohl’s graphic memoir My Degeneration, available now. I’m hoping to interview Peter… Read More
Jared Gardner: Beyond Metaphor
This week’s episode features Jared Gardner‘s keynote address, “Beyond Metaphor” from the 2015 Comics & Medicine conference in Riverside. Jared Gardner is introduced by Michael Green. You can listen to the episode by clicking below or subscribe to the feed in iTunes. In Graphic Medicine News: Events in NYC: Ian Williams will be talking about The Bad Doctor at the Morbid Anatomy Museum on Tuesday Nov. 3 and Columbia’s Narrative Medicine Rounds on Wednesday evening will feature the Esopus Magazine Medicine Issue, which includes excerpts from The Bad Doctor and Taking Turns. In Seattle? Graphic Medicine community member Mita Mahato profiled in The Stranger. And don’t… Read More
Graphic Medicine Manifesto Discussion Panel
This week on the podcast, the 2015 Comics & Medicine conferences’s opening night panel discussion of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto with authors Susan Squier, MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Michael Green, and Scott Smith. The panel was moderated by Mita Mahato and introduced by conference host Juliet McMullin. You can listen to the episode by clicking below or subscribe to the feed in iTunes. As always, watch your screens for images as they are mentioned, and in this episode I snuck in some of the “Pets love the Graphic Medicine Manifesto” images so keep an eye out for those! Also in this… Read More
“Graphic Medicine Practice and Community” with Brian Fies
This week’s episode features the first keynote address from the 2015 Comics & Medicine conference in Riverside, California. You can listen to the episode by clicking below or subscribe to the feed in iTunes. This week in Graphic Medicine News: “Medical graphic novels attracting a growing audience” from Yahoo News. Jessica Abel (creator of Out on the Wire and Drawing Words, Writing Pictures) recommends “Rosalee Lightning” by Tom Hart. This week on “What Are You Reading?!” Juliet McMulin, who introduces Brian’s talk in this episode, is my guest and recommends I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Niimura. She also… Read More
New Graphic Medicine Podcast Season Begins!
The first episode of the new and improved (and sponsored!) Graphic Medicine Podcast is now available! You can listen to the episode by clicking below or subscribe to the feed in iTunes. In Graphic Medicine News, I mention the following two pieces: Ryan Montoya’s “Sign Out” new on the Annals of Internal Medicine site. and “Market for Medical Graphic Novels Grows” article on Bookseller, flagged up by Paula Knight. This week on the podcast, we feature an interview with Jennifer Hayden, creator of The Story of My Tits (Top Press, 2015). Jennifer describes how she came to making comics, describes her… Read More
Arthur Frank: “When Bodies Need Stories in Pictures”
Sociologist Arthur Frank delivers the Sue Eckstein Memorial keynote address at the 2014 Comics & Medicine conference on the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus. Sue Eckstein The lecture is titled, “When Bodies Need Stories in Pictures.” This address was sponsored by the Brighton Sussex Medical School and is introduced by Ian Williams of Graphic Medicine dot org. Use the Quicktime player below to view images along with Arthur Frank’s keynote. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to an audio-only version of the keynote address below. Arthur Frank wrote of his talk, In my 1995 book, The Wounded Storyteller, I asked… Read More
An Interview with Juliet McMullin
Juliet McMullin is the hostess of the 2015 Comics & Medicine conference at the University of California at Riverside. Juliet talks about how she started working with comics, how Brian Fies’s Mom’s Cancer became an influence on her scholarship, and what she’s most looking forward to at this year’s conference. Use the Quicktime player below to view images along with Juliet’s interview. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to an audio-only version of the interview below.
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