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Registration IS NOW LIVE! The Graphic Medicine conference in Toronto will be hybrid. In-person presentations will be live-streamed for those attending virtually, and there will be a session dedicated to real-time virtual presentations, available to both remote and in-person attendees. If you will be joining us in Toronto, you must choose in-person registration. We ask that you select the registration rate that best represents your available resources, including institutional funding, bearing in mind that those able to afford a higher registration fee will be assisting those unable to do so. All rates are in Canadian dollars. In person attendance: $250 $100… Read More

The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) is thrilled to announce the 2023 shortlists for the GMIC Awards for outstanding health-related comic projects completed and/or published in 2022. This award is made possible by a generous matching gift in Honor of Nancy and Herbert Wolf, and is intended to honor and carry on their legacy of service and care. You can read more about Nancy and Herbert here. This is a matching gift, so donations to support this award are needed and appreciated. Please donate here if you are able! This year’s entries were wide-ranging in form, length, geographical origin, and… Read More

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May 5th Comic Studies Event Check out the audio flyer HERE! The Program in Visual Impairments, Comic Studies & The Longmore Institute on Disability Present: Innovations in Accessible Comics for Blind & Low Vision Readers! Join us on May 5th from 10am to 1:30pm for a conversation with the prizewinners of the Accessible Comics Collective design competition. Attendees will be given exclusive access to explore prizewinners’ early prototypes and learn how a visual medium can become accessible. For more information on the prizewinners, check out our recent newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/sfsu/marchcafecrip-14225035 Attendees will also have the opportunity to: Learn from blind… Read More

guest post by Frank Houghton, Public Health Geographer & Lecturer, Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland. Smoking is the world’s leading cause of preventable mortality. As such all aspects of associated culture, marketing, and portrayals need to examined to identify causal aspects. We have examined portrayals of smoking in a random selection of graphic novels in the public library of a provincial city in Ireland. The results noted high rates of smoking portrayals in cyberpunk and noir graphic novels [1]. Notable gender differences in portrayals were also observed [1].  Following on from this finding, a second study explored smoking portrayals in noir… Read More

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guest post by Edward Dorey Recently, Fantagraphics reissued the anthology series Tits & Clits (1972-1987) in an omnibus collection. Co-created by Lyn Chevli and Joyce Farmer, this comic satirically addresses the “unsexy” aspects of sex that women experience: IUDs falling out, vaginal drips, periods, and birth control. Also included in the re-release is the one-shot Abortion Eve (1973), which discusses not only the positives of abortion but also the mechanics of the procedure circa the 1970s. Featuring stories on dilation and curettage (D&C) abortions, invasive gynecological exams, and scarce information on affordable tampon alternatives, Tits & Clits (1972-1987) provides an… Read More

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