Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on Jojo’s Not So Great Day,a new comic from clinical cartoonist Brian Narelle. About the Work Jojo’s Not So Great Day is the tale of a young firefly who misinterprets a friend’s indifference and starts down a negative spiral of beliefs, emotions and behavior…until she  meets a Thinkafeeladoo who guides her to three islands, the Island of Think, the Island of Feel and the island of Do. It turns out all three islands are connected on the back of an angry dragon whose parents are getting… Read More

Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on a new comic inspired by multiple myeloma and the medication DARA, from Mark Phillips and collaborators. About the Work My sister has multiple myeloma and started taking the drug DARA in 2019. She and I had some interesting/fun conversation about her visualization of what DARA was doing for her, and one thing led to another, and I had a short comic book made for her, featuring DARA as the super-heroine. She loved it, her doctors at the Mayo Clinic loved it, and that is as… Read More

Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on a new comic story about cerebral palsy from Shanara Curtis. About the Work This project was a university project for year 2 . We were given a chance to negotiate a live brief. At first I had a bit of trouble coming up with an idea. However I had just come off of a group project about helping people understand dementia (particularly children) and found it a very interesting and insightful project. So i decided what if I can do the same thing for cerebral… Read More

Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on a new musical imagery project from artist Jim Medway About the Work I’ve recently completed a set of illustrations and short sequential illustrations commissioned by music psychologist Dr Dawn Rose of Hochschule Lucerne Musik in Switzerland, to complement her Playlist4Parkinson’s initiative. Research has found various positive aspects to the strategy of imagining music to assist with challenges faced by people with Parkinson’s. The images are intended to help interpret and share her research in an accessible non-academic format. I was asked to address various aspects… Read More

Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on a new graphic memoir from Jason Robert LeClair about being a late-diagnosed ADHD adult. About the Work Fifteen years ago, at the age of thirty-six, I had my first diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It would take that decade and a half for me to feel comfortable enough to approach it as an artist. There was something about turning fifty that pushed me to look at what it is like to be a late-diagnosed ADHD adult. As an educator for the last twenty-six years,… Read More

Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on a new illustrated memoir from Wendy Willis about her mother’s vascular dementia. About the Work I recently wrote and self-published an illustrated memoir about my mom’s vascular dementia diagnosis called, Of Tigers & Time Bandits.  I’m currently printing and selling through Lulu and on my website. My mom had a series of small strokes in 2019 that gave her instant short-term memory loss.  It was devastating and hard to navigate her diagnosis at first.  It hit my family and I like a ton of bricks… Read More

Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on Accessible Lines, an online platform from illustrator Hatiye Garip that makes illustrations accessible for blind and low-vision audiences About the Work Accessible Lines is an online platform that allows illustrators to showcase their work with audio descriptions in their voices. It aims to make illustrations accessible to blind and low-vision audiences. Accessible Lines project wants to support illustrators and encourage them to make their illustrations accessible. The platform is a showcase for everyone to discover new illustrators and illustrations. In the project’s first edition, the… Read More

Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on a new illustrated guide to the clinical trial process from William Tobia. About the Work New medications require clinical research testing, which depends upon patients willing to volunteer as participants. Good Clinical Practices (GCP) form the backbone of integrity of conduct within clinical research. Industry professionals understand GCP, but the general public does not. What is needed for them is an easy to understand, illustrated, character-driven guide that explains the clinical trial process. “Gee C.P.” addresses this need in a unique way, through both direct… Read More

Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on a new initiative using graphic novels to educate about antimicrobial resistance (AMR). About the Work The AMR Graphic Novels Project is a research-informed, interdisciplinary initiative based at the University of Lincoln, developed in collaboration with microbiologists and educators, exploring how graphic storytelling can support engagement with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) education. The series uses narrative and visual storytelling to introduce AMR, the microbial impact of farming and agriculture, and emerging alternatives such as bacteriophage therapy. Each chapter is accompanied by optional teaching resources that educators can… Read More

Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on a new graphic novel about an 8 year old boy with behavioral challenges. About the Work Rynado (rhymes with tornado) tells the story of author Odessa Coldwell’s eight-year-old son, Ryker, navigating a year of profound upheaval. The title captures the central metaphor of the work: the intense friction between the external world and Ryker’s internal capacity to process it, a tension that causes his mind and body to swirl with the force of a storm. This first volume, “Frog Soup,” explores the slow creep of… Read More