Dispatches from Graphic Medicine Europe: Amsterdam & Rotterdam 2026  guest post by Kimberly Myers & Olesya Vynnyk Kimberly Myers: Our Graphic Medicine community is the professional space where I feel most at home. An academic, creative, whole-person-health-centered synergy quickens those of us who gather around this transdisciplinary work, project after project, year after year. We are an archly productive lot! While our professional achievements are indeed impressive, it is, however, the democratic spirit that I find most rewarding of all.  As Ian Williams reminded us in his keynote for the inaugural Graphic Medicine Europe conference in the Netherlands, the heart… Read More

Last year, cartoonist and educator Lynda Barry shared her experiences of Sudden Sensorineuronal Hearing Loss (SSHL) with us via a series of printable, full-color  zines. For a recent exhibit, she created a zine to update us on her hearing situation one year after the initial loss. Following the individual pages of the zine below is a formatted, printable page.  

guest post by Louise Dickinson, Founder and Artistic Director of Alchemise Theatre www.alchemisetheatre.co.uk/ louise@alchemisetheatre.co.uk Alchemise Theatre are an arts and health charity creating projects that seek to improve wellbeing for all.  We believe in the power of daring to hope. We believe that making art can bring light to difficult times, transforming them into something luminous. Louise, our Founder and Artistic Director formed the charity as she emerged from her (now) six year long battle with Long Covid.  Having experienced first hand the isolating impact of this gruelling illness Louise wanted to offer some respite, and a place to connect… Read More

Ariya Desai is a high school student with a passion for health education, the empowerment of the South Asian community, and using creative storytelling to make complex medical topics more accessible. Through her graphic story, she explores why South Asian populations face a higher risk of developing diabetes.

Garden Wolf Publishing is seeking an illustrator for Where Your Eyes Can’t Go, a rhyming children’s picture book by husband-and-wife co-authors, clinical pharmacologist Erica Winter and psychiatrist Eli Shalenberg. The book takes young readers on a journey to explore the human body (the heart, blood vessels, and cells), introducing basic cell biology in a way that’s fun and never dumbed down. Targeting ages 6–9. They’re looking for a textured, organic, and detailed style with an old-school aesthetic (think pencil or watercolor, though digital execution like Procreate is welcome) rather than flat, vector, or slick digital illustration. Scientific accuracy matters: they… Read More

September 8th marks the official release date of “The Book of Genocides,” the new graphic narrative by artist and anthropologist Dana Mashoian Walrath. As described on the publisher’s book site, “The Book of Genocides” is a stark, immersive graphic narrative that compels readers to confront some of the most devastating episodes in human history. Drawing on visual strategies from the disaster-comics tradition of Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman, Walrath traces ten genocides across five centuries—from the First Peoples of the Americas to the Rohingya in today’s Myanmar. These ten genocides have never before been chronicled together in this graphic form,… Read More

The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) is thrilled to announce the addition of two new members to its board: Esther Saltzman, PhD, is the Nursing Liaison for GMIC. Through graphic medicine, she has been able to combine her background in nursing with her teaching of literature. She has taught graphic medicine classes through the English Departments at the Memphis College of Art and at California State University, Los Angeles. She is the co-editor of Drawn from the Classics, Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literary Works, and has written on comics and nursing in the Journal of Radiology Nursing. While at… Read More

As part of the Graphic Medicine 2026 Conference, our friends at Lizard Brain set up long visual facilitation board – a Wisdom Wall – and invited conference attendees to participate in shared brainstorming, thinking, and meaning-making across multiple days. You can see it in motion on their Instagram here and here! On one side, attendees were asked to share “What challenges most affect your work in graphic medicine or in creating health narratives?”. On the other, attendees responded to the prompt, “What do you believe the solutions to these challenges are?”. Attendees provided the concepts, exact phrases, and, because this is a comics… Read More