Michael Green reports that the Penn State medical library has this wonderful display and he swears he had nothing to do with it!
Things to Do in Toronto When You're Alive (not to be confused with Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead)
Guest blogger and conference presenter Steven Bergson gives us a rundown of Toronto’s finest. Some of you may be arriving in Toronto before the conference begins, while others may be staying along after the conference ends. Either way, you’ve probably got plans in mind for what to do while you’re here (besides attending our wonderful conference!). For those with no plans – or who might be looking for alternate options – I’ve prepared a small list of events, websites, and attractions to help you plan your itinerary. Toronto Websites Toronto Tourism http://www.seetorontonow.com Blog TO http://www.blogto.com/… Read More
Tweeting the Comics & Medicine conference
For any participants and followers who might be Twitter users, we are planning to use the hashtag #comicsmedicinetoronto. We encourage live tweeting of the sessions as many people will be unable to be in Toronto but still interested in following the proceedings. And for those of us who are able to attend, there are, by necessity, concurrent sessions from which we’d love updates. All conference tweeting is greatly appreciated!
Joyce Brabner: Giving Voice through Words and Pictures
Joyce Brabner will be the first keynote speaker at the upcoming Comics and Medicine conference. Guest blogger Mita Mahato looks at the overlapping commitment to comics and activism that characterizes Brabner’s life. Perhaps the most apparent link that joins Joyce Brabner to Graphic Medicine is Our Cancer Year (1994), the comics memoir she wrote with her late husband, Harvey Pekar. Blending the perspectives of caregiver Brabner and patient Pekar, the book (illustrated by Frank Stack) not only highlights the gritty realities of cancer, chemotherapy, and the effects both have on mind and body, but also positions that illness within the… Read More
Conference Reading List
Gary Ashwal over at Booster Shot Comics presents a “Reading List Before Comics & Medicine.” Great idea, Gary! Looking forward to meeting you and Alex and hearing about your work.
Comics & Parkinson's
In anticipation of this week’s upcoming podcast conversation with Mom’s Cancer creator Brian Fies, here’s news about a project Brian participated in to raise funds for Parkinson’s disease research. “Inspired by “Cul de Sac” comic strip creator Richard Thompson, Team Cul de Sac is an effort organized by Chris Sparks to raise funds for researching Parkinson’s Disease, which Richard has. Working with the Michael J. Fox Foundation, Team Cul de Sac had the idea of asking other cartoonists, illustrators, animators and artists to donate art for a book and auction. What kind of art? As the original announcement said: “The theme is… Read More
New Podcast Wednesday For Reals!
Today on the podcast it’s the amazing Riva Lehrer! Artist and educator Riva Lehrer talks with MK about bodies, her portrait series Circle Stories, her anatomical art lecture beauty and variation, disability culture and community, medicine, comics, Graphic Medicine, the recent University of Chicago Comics Conference and more. Riva teaches life drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern Medical School. The Paper Mirror: Drawing Alison Bechdel is a film by Charissa King-O’Brien that documents Riva’s collaboration with cartoonist Alison Bechdel. A screening of the film will be the opening night event at the Comics & Medicine 2012 Toronto… Read More
Graphic Medicine Book Series Released by Penn State University Press
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New Podcast Wednesday (kind of)
This week’s Graphic Medicine podcast is actually a Laydeez do Comics podcast! Alex Fitch presents Comic Nurse (that’s me) and Sarah Leavitt at Laydeez in London, recorded on November of 2011. (above: The Graphic Medicine section of Blackwell’s Wellcome Collection bookshop, London. Tangles by Sarah Leavitt is on the right and two of my books are on the left. The center book, Billy, Me, & You is by Laydeez organizer Nicola Streeten. ) Visuals for the comics I discuss can be found by digging around here. “Taking Turns,” my book in progress, can be found here. Sarah Leavitt’s website is here, which… Read More
Comics Forum
Thanks to the amazing Ian Hague at Comics Forum, the 2011 Chicago Comics & Medicine conference is now the second archived academic conference on his site. This is a wonderful resource for us all!