Kevin Wolf has been the Graphic Medicine Reviews Editor since 2020. He is a health actuary and has been writing reviews for the graphic medicine website since 2015. Kevin talks with me, Alice Jaggers, about what he does for the website, a few standout reviews, and books he has covered. Relevant Links: Graphic Medicine Website Reviews page  Specific Reviews Mentioned: Bearing Stories  Great Hanoi Rat Hunt & Plagues  COVID Chronicles, Nib’s Pandemic & Comic News Catalogue Baby  You can find the books mentioned on this episode and other episodes here.  Go with the Flow  One Good Egg  The… Read More

The Graphic Medicine Confab is a roundtable conversation focusing on the challenges and techniques of making graphic medicine: comics about everything and anything to do with health, medicine, illness and our bodies. Meetings are organized by Kriota Willberg, Joel Christian Gill, Georgia Webber, and Benjamin Schwartz. Each Confab has a theme and a facilitator (see below for details.) The GMC is meeting for more sessions via Zoom. Artists, educators, librarians, health care professionals, patients, and others contributed compelling  questions and comments, creating dynamic conversations about a wide range of topics. You can check out the first four sessions here. Graphic… Read More

Graphic Mundi and Seminary Co-op Bookstores co-host the launch of COVID CHRONICLES: A COMICS ANTHOLOGY, the inaugural volume of PSU Press comics imprint Graphic Mundi. Editor Kendra Boileau, and contributors Jason Chatfield, Sarah Firth, Rob Kirby, and Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos discuss their process, the book, and life in the COVID age with moderator Matthew Noe. You can purchase your copy of COVID Chronicles and support Graphic Medicine by using this link.

Kendra Boileau is the Publisher of Graphic Mundi and the Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief of Penn State University Press. She developed the Graphic Medicine line of graphic novels for PSU Press and is launching the Graphic Mundi imprint with this week’s release of COVID Chronicles. We’ll talk about all of that in our conversation.  Relevant links: Register for the COVID Chronicles launch event. Where to buy COVID Chronicles. Graphic Mundi website. An article about the launch of Graphic Mundi and Graphic Medicine at Penn State.    this podcast is sponsored by

In this episode, MK Czerwiec interviews Kimiko Tobimatsu and Keet Geniza about their recent book, Kimiko Does Cancer. They discuss working on the book during a pandemic, what it was like to work with each other and more. Links to sites mentioned in the episode: The book’s website: https://www.kimikodoescancer.com/ Keet’s Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/makeshiftlove Kimiko’s Etsy, including cancer cards: https://www.etsy.com/shop/kimikoandco You can buy the book and support us by using this link from Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/books/kimiko-does-cancer-a-graphic-memoir/9781551528199?aid=1457 Support for this podcast comes from Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Humanities, the nation’s oldest Humanities Department within a medical school, pioneers of innovations in medical… Read More