New discount! Our Bookshop.org affiliate commission has been upgraded to 15% for all of June! Check out any of our specially curated lists, or focus on our LGBTQ+ lists for Pride Month! Speaking of queer comics, the documentary NO STRAIGHT LINES is streaming for free on PBS from June 1-30 in celebration of this year’s Pride Month. 2017 Graphic Medicine keynote Rupert Kinnard is featured in the film as well as many others. From the PBS website, “When Alison Bechdel received a coveted MacArthur Award for her best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home, it heralded the acceptance of LGBTQ+ comics in American… Read More
FRAMES – POSTPONED
UPDATE: FRAMES HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC. Organisers say they will reschedule both FRAMES and TRANSITIONS for the autumn. Friday, 20 March 2020 10:3016:30 Birkbeck, University of London(map) location: Birkbeck, University of London With support from CHASE the annual TRANSITIONS symposium has been extended with FRAMES, a day of workshops for CHASE researchers. The workshops are Graphic Medicine with Ian Williams and Comics as Research Practice with Nick Sousanis. The workshops are focussed on comics and arts as part of the research process, but are open to all research students affiliated with CHASE institutions. The day is… Read More
New Podcast: A. David Lewis on Creating a Graphic Medicine Course at Your College
A. David Lewis shares his lecture from the 2019 New England Graphic Medicine Comic-Con, titled “Creating a Graphic Medicine Course at Your College.” Speaker bio: (adapted from David’s website): A. David Lewis holds a Ph.D. in Religion & Literature from Boston University and an M.A. in English Literature from Georgetown University. He started lecturing on comics as well as writing short back-up stories for various anthologies in 1999. Critically praised for his creative work in independent comics (including the biblical Lone and Level Sands and Some New Kind of Slaughter), Lewis has been featured in The Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly… Read More
Saturday Studio: Comics and graphic novels workshop at the Wellcome Collection
If you’re aged between 14-19 and you’re interested in drawing, graphic novels and the stories you can tell through them head over to one of the free one hour workshops at the Wellcome Collection. Alex Demetris will teach you the fundamentals needed for creating your own comic or graphic novel in workshops inspired by medicine and health. Workshops will take place at 2pm, 3pm and 4pm at Wellcome Collection on Saturday 16th September. For more information https://wellcomecollection.org/events/saturday-studio-comics-and-graphic-novels-workshop These workshops are for young people aged 14-19. There are 20 spaces in each session – first come, first served. You’ll have the best chance… Read More