Needed for a Research Study: Graphic Medicine and Health Professional Students Who is Eligible? Students who have taken a course during their health professional education that involved the use of comics (also known as Graphic Medicine) within the last 5 years What will you be asked to do? Phone interview to explore medical students’ and other future health professionals’ perceptions of the impact of the use of comics in medical education Compensation: You will receive $25 gift card (BookShop.org or Starbucks) for your participation in this study If you have any questions or are interested in participating, please contact… Read More

The Graphic Medicine International Collective, in collaboration with Penn State College of Medicine, are launching a project to collect and tell stories from the front lines.  The project will connect front-line workers with comic artists to tell visual stories about the front-line workers’ experience during the COVID pandemic. We are aiming for a collection of about 20-25 stories to be shared online (and potentially published as an anthology), and are enlisting a diverse group or artists to help tell these stories. It’s meant to be a true collaboration between front-line worker and artist, with the two parties meeting and crafting… Read More

We cordially invite chapter proposals and art submissions for an edited book entitled ‘Queering Nutrition and Dietetics: LGBTQ+ Reflections on Food Through Art’.  The book will bring the voices of LGBTQ+ people front and center through the chapters and art submissions and will contribute to experiential learning, allowing for more understanding of the lives of LGBTQ+ peoples relating to food and nutrition. Submissions will be selected for their originality, creativity, and potential to expand knowledge and practice in health professions. The book will give readers, health professions, health educators, and heath students the opportunity to better understand the health and wellbeing… Read More

As you may remember from our previous post, Center for Cartoon Studies co-founder James Sturm has been working with a team of Harvard students and scholars, Kazimir Lee, and Sam Nakahira on a 32-page comic about the US healthcare system. This work is part of his Radcliffe Fellowship. Health and Wealth, A Graphic Guide to the US Healthcare System is being created to help the general public better understand how the US healthcare system works in hopes that it will generate discussions around healthcare and healthcare reform. A digital version of the comic book and a study/engagement guide will be available… Read More

Ilana Zeffren’s Urban Tails hits Kickstarter Collected for the first time in English, the autobiographical comics are a charming, insightful look at LGBT+ life in Tel Aviv. Beginning in 2006, Ilana Zeffren has chronicled her life as a weekly newspaper comic strip.  Urban Tails brings these strips together in English for the first time, presenting a 200+ page collection which is down to earth, honest, and provides a gentle look into the lives of Ilana, her girlfriend, and their two cats. Addressing subjects as diverse as mental health and the proliferation of crocs (shoes), Zeffren brings a fresh perspective and… Read More

The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) is thrilled to announce the launch of our Graphic Medicine Liaison Program! We have long discussed  the need for field-specific champions of graphic medicine, given our ever-growing, multidisciplinary community and the impossibility of asking the board and larger organizing team to be experts in all things. The liaison program seeks to address this need by inviting active, trusted members of the graphic medicine community to serve as liaisons to their primary home fields. The role of the liaison is to maintain a page on this website dedicated to their field and describe how graphic… Read More

As part of a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, Center for Cartoon Studies co-founder James Sturm has been working with a team of Harvard students and scholars, Kazimir Lee, and Sam Nakahira on a 32-page comic about the US healthcare system. They have granted us here at Graphic Medicine the exclusive reveal of their cover! Health and Wealth, A Graphic Guide to the US Healthcare System is being created to help the general public better understand how the US healthcare system works in hope it generates discussions around healthcare and healthcare reform. A digital version of the comic book and a study/engagement… Read More

In case you, your students, or anyone you know might be interested in reading Brian Fies’ Mom’s Cancer or Ian Williams’ The Bad Doctor in Spanish, those titles are available from SaludArte Editiones! (https://www.saludarteediciones.com)  

Yasunaga Komori of the Japan Graphic Medicine Association was kind enough to provide us with a translation of an interview they recently posted with him. We proudly share it here!  Please introduce yourself briefly. What kind of work do you usually do? I am a psychiatrist. I’m currently the head of the psycho-oncology department at the Aichi Cancer Center. I don’t read manga on a regular basis, and I don’t do medical education for a living, so I’m not in a position to introduce graphic medicine (GM), but for some reason, my colleagues and I translated a book, Graphic Medicine Manifesto. It’s always the patients… Read More

Graphic Medicine and Drawing Together community member Erin Partridge has recently published a new book, Getting On in the Creative Arts Therapies: A Hands-On Guide to Personal and Professional Development. (ISBN 978 1 78775 263 4) She says of the text, “I think my book would be a very useful resource for many of the Graphic Medicine folks (and it is illustrated throughout by some comics by a comics artist/art therapy student and some of my own sequential art.” From the book’s back cover: “What do you really want from your career and how are you going to get it? How… Read More