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
New Podcast: Mental Health Comics
This month’s episode features a recording of the Mental Health Comics Panel from MICE 2018, Moderated by A. David Lewis, MCPHS University. Panelists include: Lucy Bellwood – 100 Demon Dialogues Kevin Budnik – Handbook LB Lee – MPD for You & Me Robyn Smith – Saddest, Angriest Black Girl in Town (also see this site.) Rachel Lindsay – Rx (also see this article.) Also relevant to this episode, quoting Matthew Noe’s This Week in Graphic Medicine, please note this Call for Papers: Invisible Made Visible: Comics and Mental Illness, to be edited by Leah Misemer & Jessica Gross. Matthew writes,… Read More