Graphic Non-Fiction
Graphic Non-Fiction is based on real events covering one or more medical topics. The graphic work could include a memoir about cancer or other illness, a biography of a healthcare provider, history of a pandemic or other medical event or treatment, an anthology of many stories about a similar medical topic, or many other graphic medicine possibilities. If you have a Graphic Non-Fiction work you want reviewed or want to be a guest reviewer, please ask at https://www.graphicmedicine.org/contact/.
Papaya Salad
The Joy of Snacking: A Graphic Memoir about Food, Love & Family
Dumb Reminders
Of Tigers and Time Bandits – An Odyssey into Dementia
Becoming Margaret Leng Tan: The Toy Piano Virtuoso Who Couldn’t Stop Counting
THE OLLIE COMICS – DIARY OF A FIRST-TIME DAD
A Mild Case of Mass Hysteria
Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City – A Graphic Memoir
Trans History—From Ancient Times to the Present Day
The Nightingales
Boxers & Saints
Sound: A Comics Anthology
Embracing the Misdiagnosis: Medical Misogyny and Geographic Labeling as a Diagnostic Alibi in Powerpaola’s Virus Tropical
The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History
The Art of the Graphic Memoir – Tell Your Story, Change Your Life
Cartooning – The Art and the Business
The Black Schooner: Rebellion on the Amistad
Emotional Support Animals: Anonymous Fuzzball Comics + Workbook
My Perfectly Imperfect Body
How Are You Feeling? A Comics Anthology
A Syncopated Rhythm: Elizabeth Swados’ My Depression: A Picture Book
Infected for Science
Historical Genetics’ Introductions
Media Shrapnel, Cartooning as Urgent Care: Emergency Witnessing in Mazen Kerbaj’s Gaza in My Phone
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Stretch Marks – A Psychologic Autobiography
Speaking in Pictures – A Vision of Language
A Better World Is Possible – Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis
Together
Angola Janga
The A Word – A Global History of the Abortion Struggle
Such a Lovely Little War – Saigon, 1961-63
A Brief History of a Long War – Ukraine’s Fight Against Russian Domination
The Nobody (New Edition)
Holler – A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance
Front Lines – A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance
Run Home
I Always Think It’s Forever – A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator
I Was Their American Dream – A Graphic Memoir
It Won’t Always Be Like This – A Graphic Memoir
First Freedom – The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth
Heart to Heart – A Timely Tale of Healing, Hope, and Change
War is Boring – Bored Stiff, Scared to Death in the World’s Worst War Zones
Other Russias
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States – A Graphic Interpretation
Drafted
Bad Kid – My Life as a Troubled Teen
Making Nonfiction Comics – A Guide for Graphic Narrative
Toussaint Louverture
Remember Us to Life
Diaries of War – Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia
All Things Connect
Jane Goodall Tribute
Being Here: Caring for Dad 101
Andre the Giant – Closer to Heaven
Wish We Weren’t Here – Postcards from the Apocalypse
Best Breasts in the West
Down to the Bone – a leukemia story
In Mourning
American Born Chinese
This Might Surprise You – A Breast Cancer Story
Bodymagic – A Graphic Novel About Witchcraft, Trauma, and Healing
Pregnancy and Birth – A Graphic Guide
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?
It Rhymes with Takei
Precious Rubbish
A Fine Withering
Feeding Ghosts – A Graphic Memoir
Halfway There – A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery
Okchundang Candy
I’m a Terminal Cancer Patient, but I’m Fine
Guardians of Being – Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs & Cats
Fe – A Traumatized Son’s Graphic Memoir
Diana – My Graphic Obsession
Breadcrumbs – Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Poland
Amazing Facts about Baby Animals – an Illustrated Compendium
100 degrees Celsius – South Korea’s 1987 Democracy Movement
9 of 1 – Window to the World
Tiny Dancer
Bald
Everything is Okay
Dr. Werthless
A Fade of Light
Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag – A Memoir
Tolkien – Lighting Up the Darkness
Us
Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Journey through Grief
Girlsplaining: A (Sorta) Memoir
Traces of Madness – A Graphic Memoir
Guns in the United States – Stories of Trauma
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
NAVIGATING THE POLAR VORTEX, IN AND OUT
Everything is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder – Confessions of a Former Badass
Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison
Trouble Down South
Stan Lee Presents – The Mighty Marvel Strength and Fitness Book
What to Do … When You Get Dumped – a guide to unbreaking your heart (… When I’m Gone: A Mother’s Wisdom to Her Daughter)
We Live Here – Detroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing Justice
Raised by Ghosts
Something, Not Nothing – A Story of Grief and Love
Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory
The Great Marc Evers
Cicatrix by Elle (Shivers)
Connecting Threads – Five Siblings Lost and Found
The Parakeet
On Comics and Grief
Puzzled – A Memoir about Growing Up with OCD
The Heart That Fed – A father, a son, and the long shadow of war
Whatever Happened to Frankie King
Stamped from the Beginning – A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America
Ripple Effects
Lebanon is Burning and Other Dispatches
Checkups Shots and Robots – True Stories Behind How Doctors Treat Us
Brittle Joints
Sunshine
Past Tense – Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy
The Hidden Zoo Inside You – An illustrated guide to pesky organisms and pandemics
Shrink – Story of a Fat Girl
Unjust Incarceration – Japanese-Descended People on the West Coast of the United States & Canada During WWII – Part 1 – Stories from Mostly Outsiders
Unjust Incarceration – Japanese-Descended People on the West Coast of the United States & Canada During WWII – Part 2 – Outsiders Provide Stories about Those Inside
Unjust Incarceration – Japanese-Descended People on the West Coast of the United States & Canada During WWII – Part 3 – Insiders Tell Their Own Stories
Give Me Space but Don’t Go Far – My Unlikely Friendship with Anxiety
here I am, I am me – An Illustrated Guide to Mental Health
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83 Days in Mariupol – A War Diary
Lavender Clouds – Comics about Neurodivergence and Mental Health
Finding the Light – A Mother’s Journey from Trauma to Healing
But You Have Friends
Sunflowers
Offhand
Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey
The Talk
In Transition
Medicine for Beginners, 2nd edition
A Fox in my Brain
My Emotions and Me: A Graphic Novel to Help You Understand Your Feelings
Kind of Coping: An Illustrated Look at Life with Anxiety
Washington’s Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron von Steuben
We’re All Just Fine
Retrospective Review of Horrible Histories: Anarchic Bodies and Healing in the Classroom
Middle Distance: A Graphic Memoir
Becoming Unbecoming
The Pandemic Cookbook
Tegan and Sara: Junior High
What’s Wrong: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine
Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American
Feeding Dangerously
You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife
PMR: My Pretty Miserable Reality
It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth – An auto-bio-graphic-novel
Dear Sophie, Love Sophie
Freedom Hospital: A Syrian Story
Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay
Frida: The Story of Her Life
Embrace Your Size: My Own Body Positivity
My Body in Pieces
Naked: The Confessions of a Normal Woman
Us Two Together
One in a Million
Medicine: A Graphic History
So Much for Love: How I Survived a Toxic Relationship
Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders
Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
Radium Girls
In Limbo
Graphic Public Health: A Comics Anthology and Road Map
How I Broke Up with My Colon – Fascinating, Bizarre, and True Health Stories
Big Mushy Happy Lump
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
Nervosa
Chunky
Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir
A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality
Ephemera: A Memoir
Look Again
The Times I Knew I Was Gay
Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains
The Best We Could Do
Smile
Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Life
A Quick & Easy Guide to Consent
Dragonslippers: This Is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like
Dying for Attention
Sensory: Life on the Spectrum An Autistic Comic Anthology
Seeing Guides
Cycling & Menstrupedia
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
the fire never goes out: a memoir in pictures
Algériennes – The Forgotten Women of the Algerian Revolution (Graphic Medicine series)
How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual
Introducing Psychology: A Graphic Guide to Your Mind & Behavior
Creepy, Joy of Quitting, My Begging Chart
Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars
Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings
Notes from a Sickbed
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Silver Wire by Kriota Willberg
My Mom Had an Abortion
Our Little Secret & Chartwell Manor
Hummingbird Heart
The Third Person
Vagina Love
In Waves
Forgiveness: The Story of Eva Kor, Survivor of The Auschwitz Twin Experiments
Sweaty Palms: The Anthology about Anxiety
Psychology: The Comic Book Introduction
When Stars Are Scattered
Rinse Spin Repeat
A Chance
Dancing at the Pity Party: a dead mom graphic memoir
Night Bus
Tower 25
U S Healthcare System – Reality vs Reform
Hey, Kiddo
Shot in the Arm
Climate Change & Environmentalists
Parenthesis
The Hospital Suite
There’s Only One Place This Road Ever Ends Up
Fights by Joel Christian Gill
Grass and Not on My Watch
Fever Year & Invisible War
Great Hanoi Rat Hunt & Plagues
Wait, What? A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up
Dumb: Living without a Voice
The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime & Poetry
Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life
First Year Out: A Transition Story
Imagine Wanting Only This
Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love by Jim Ottaviani & Dylan Meconis
