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New Podcast: Reconciling the Public and Private in Health Comics with Whit Taylor

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The episode opens with Alice Jaggers and host MK Czerwiec discussing Graphic Medicine News. That segment is followed by Whit Taylor‘s keynote address from the 2018 Comics & Medicine conference in White River Junction, Vermont. NOTE: The comics Whit mentions are linked below. Whit is a cartoonist, writer, editor, and public health educator. She has a BA in cultural anthropology from Brown University and received an MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Boston University School of Public Health. Her comics have been published by The Nib, The New Yorker, Illustrated PEN and others.   America Isn’t Ready For a Pandemic, The… Read More

“Scaling Up Graphic Medicine” – Susan Squier’s 2018 Conference Keynote Address

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This month’s episode features Susan Squier’s full keynote from this year’s Graphic Medicine conference at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Her talk is titled “Graphic Medicine: The Scales of Comics Work.” You will hear Susan introduced by Juliet McMullin. The images Susan cites directly in her talk follow below, in order. Stay tuned to the end of Susan’s talk for a special announcement!   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 education since 1967. To learn… Read More

A Love for Cartoons: Me and Graphic Medicine

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Guest post by Priyanga Singh. The beginning of love My introduction to cartoons was in daily news paper strips, At that time I was very young and illiterate (by which I mean I wasn’t going to school yet) so, technically, cartoons were the first thing I learnt:  ‘doodlogenesis’ occurred before I could write a word. Blank paper, pencils and scissors still fascinate me, inviting me to draw, cut and glue and that’s all I have been doing mostly. Drawing as a way of learning I was terrified by cell structure in 6th grade and I remember my mother drew cell structure… Read More

Graphic Medicine at Reimagine NYC 2018

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Reimagine End of Life New York, the week-long series of events exploring big questions of life and death, is in the books. In bringing the series to New York from San Francisco, organizers hoped for 75 or so successful events. There were over 350, and Graphic Medicine was the focus of a few. Running the entire week was an exhibit of comic art at the 53rd Street New York Public Library, which had two components. Upstairs at the branch was “Death Panels: Comics That Help Us Face End of Life.” The exhibit featured art from Roz Chast, Ben Schwartz, Thi Bui,… Read More

Listen to the Doctors: Graphic Medicine in Taiwan

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guest post by Pin-chia Feng, Chair Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Director at the Asian American Studies Research Center of National Chiao Tung University in Hsin-chu. Pin-chia is also a Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan and Editor-in-Chief of the Review of English and American Literature.  There is a long history of Taiwanese medical professionals engaging in creative writing; the creation of graphic narratives, however, is a relatively unknown genre of creative writing among the island’s healthcare providers. While there were Taiwanese doctors and medical students creating comics as a… Read More

Report from Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) 2018

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guest post by Kevin Wolf Columbus Ohio hosted their annual city-wide comics’ festival, Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC; http://cartooncrossroadscolumbus.com) from Thursday September 27 through Sunday September 30, 2018. Please refer to www.graphicmedicine.org/report-from-cartoon-crossroads-columbus/ for some background on CXC in my prior report about CXC 2016. CXC is an amazing event that gets better every year. CXC provides a variety of venues at Ohio State University campus (Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM), Hale Hall, Ohio Union, & Wexner Center for the Arts), Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML), Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD), and Columbus Museum of Art (CMA). There was an… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (10/19/18)

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‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Special Notes… Thank you to Alice Jaggers for running the show the past couple of weeks! I had a good vacation – a family wedding and visit – and am feeling fairly rested. More relevant to you all, is that I’m back at This Week. I wanted to make sure to point… Read More

Graphic Medicine: Academic Angles and Engaging with Altmetrics

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guest post by Jane Burns (@JMBurns99) In August this summer I presented at the Comics & Medicine Conference: The Ways We Work. I presented on the panel about Academic Angles with other Health Librarians.  My paper examined the role of the Health Librarian in the development of and engagement with Graphic Medicine for end users health literacy.  One aspect that I focussed on was the engagement with altmetrics. I find using altmetrics provides a broader understanding of research impact. The application of altmetrics complements existing bibliometrics and other analytical tools. This is extremely useful in evaluating research outputs by demonstrating… Read More

Graphic Medicine at Reimagine New York

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Reimagine End of Life is a community-wide exploration of death and celebration of life through creativity and conversation. Artists, storytellers, healthcare professionals, faith and community leaders, and innovators across all five boroughs of New York City are uniting from Oct. 27-Nov. 3 to create a unique week of more than 250 events. Graphic Medicine is one of 200+ collaborators coming together to explore death and celebrate life from every perspective. There will be at least seven events that feature comics at Reimagine! Here is a rundown, click on the links for details and ticketing. Roz Chast in Conversation Death Panels… Read More