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
A Request From Our Book Review Editor
Greetings! My name is Kevin Wolf and I am the book review editor at www.graphicmedicine.org. For a number of years soon after a graphic medicine review of a published (in-print) book with an ISBN[i] has been posted at https://www.graphicmedicine.org/comic-reviews/, I have been emailing links to those reviews to my local comic bookshops and independent bookstores. When I visit those stores in person, I have often found those reviewed books on their shelves; though not necessarily due to their getting the review. My goal is to get more graphic medicine books into the book-buying public’s hands by educating shop owners about… Read More