Graphic Novel
Graphic Novels can be fiction or non-fiction stories covering one or more medical topics. They 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 novel you want reviewed or want to be a guest reviewer, please ask at https://www.graphicmedicine.org/contact/. Or if you want to see some suggested titles waiting to be reviewed look at Write a Review.
Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure & Escape from St. Hell: My Trans Teen Life Levels Up
The Tumor in the Clay
Crownsville
On the Dark Side of the Moon（我們在月之暗面）
Papaya Salad
The Joy of Snacking: A Graphic Memoir about Food, Love & Family
Dumb Reminders
Avengers: No More Bullying
THE OLLIE COMICS – DIARY OF A FIRST-TIME DAD
A Mild Case of Mass Hysteria
MR. GOODCHILD
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City – A Graphic Memoir
Trans History—From Ancient Times to the Present Day
Lights, Planets, People!
Boxers & Saints
Sound: A Comics Anthology
Shadow Doctor
Embracing the Misdiagnosis: Medical Misogyny and Geographic Labeling as a Diagnostic Alibi in Powerpaola’s Virus Tropical
The Sickness, Volume 1
Stuck Rubber Baby (25th Anniversary Edition)
Thirst as Ecological Distress: Planetary Health and Water Scarcity in Brenda Larusso’s Cánidos [Canines]
The Black Schooner: Rebellion on the Amistad
The Closed Circuit of Paranoia: Persecutory Vision in Alberto Breccia’s Informe sobre los Ciegos [Report on the Blind]
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
The Froggy Library – Welcome to Soggy Stump
Infected for Science
Historical Genetics’ Introductions
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Delay – A Comics Anthology
Stretch Marks – A Psychologic Autobiography
ULTRASOUND
Nick Pope: Summer of ’88
Invisible Differences – A Story of Autism, Adulting, and Living Life in Full Color
Surviving the City Series
Carnival of Contagion
This Land is our Land – A Blue Beetle Story
Making Nonfiction Comics – A Guide for Graphic Narrative
Whistle – A New Gotham City Hero
Illegal Cargo
Toussaint Louverture
The Woodchipper
All Things Connect
Jane Goodall Tribute
Being Here: Caring for Dad 101
Andre the Giant – Closer to Heaven
Hello Sunshine
Playing in a Dream
Bionic
Surgeon X – The Path of Most Resistance
Spider-Man Fights Substance Abuse
Best Breasts in the West
Usagi Yojimbo (Volume 41) – Ten Thousand Plums
Down to the Bone – a leukemia story
In Mourning
Joe the Barbarian
American Born Chinese
Trouble! At Coal Creek
This Might Surprise You – A Breast Cancer Story
Bodymagic – A Graphic Novel About Witchcraft, Trauma, and Healing
Pregnancy and Birth – A Graphic Guide
John Carpenter Presents George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?
It Rhymes with Takei
Endodontocomix
Global – One fragile world. An epic fight for survival
Precious Rubbish
Iron Man – Demon in a Bottle
The Mongoose
Cannon
Feeding Ghosts – A Graphic Memoir
The Weight
The Way Home
Halfway There – A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery
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
The impending blindness of Billie Scott
Breadcrumbs – Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Poland
49 Days
Tiny Dancer
Porter Loves Cleo
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
The EC Archives: Psychoanalysis
NAVIGATING THE POLAR VORTEX, IN AND OUT
Cuba My Revolution
Everything is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder – Confessions of a Former Badass
Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison
Five Reasons Why Cognitive Behavior Therapy Doesn’t Work
I Do I Don’t – How to Build a Better Marriage
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
Navigating With You
Something, Not Nothing – A Story of Grief and Love
PAWS – Volumes 1 – 4
Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory
The Leak
The Great Marc Evers
Three Nines Fine – A journey with brain health
The Sweetness Between Us
Wildful
Cicatrix by Elle (Shivers)
Connecting Threads – Five Siblings Lost and Found
The Parakeet
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
Mothballs
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
Tunis to Sydney
Past Tense – Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy
The Hidden Zoo Inside You – An illustrated guide to pesky organisms and pandemics
The Jellyfish
The Werewolf at Dusk and Other Stories
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
here I am, I am me – An Illustrated Guide to Mental Health
Age 16
ish
Nick Pope: A Diary
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
Red Scare
After Lambana – Myth and Magic in Manila
Offhand
Sunhead
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass: The Graphic Novel
Proxy Mom: My Experience with Postpartum Depression
Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey
giant
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
The Sleepover
We’re All Just Fine
Retrospective Review of Horrible Histories: Anarchic Bodies and Healing in the Classroom
Shubeik Lubeik
Middle Distance: A Graphic Memoir
Becoming Unbecoming
Firebugs
The Pandemic Cookbook
Living with Viola
Tegan and Sara: Junior High
Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American
Feeding Dangerously
You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife
Allergic
Becoming J Michael Straczynski
Cyclopedia Exotica
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
The Cancer Plot: Terminal Immortality in Marvel’s Moral Universe
Blossoms in Autumn
My Body in Pieces
Naked: The Confessions of a Normal Woman
Transitions: A Mother’s Journey
Going Under
Us Two Together
Illness, Disease, and Death in the Graphic Novels of Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective Review Essay
One in a Million
heart in a box
The Waiting
Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron review
Offshore Lightning
The Naked Tree
Blood of the Paladin
When Everything Turned Blue
Medicine: A Graphic History
So Much for Love: How I Survived a Toxic Relationship
Goodbye: A Story of Suicide
Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders
Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
Hungry Ghost
Radium Girls
In Limbo
How I Broke Up with My Colon – Fascinating, Bizarre, and True Health Stories
Big Mushy Happy Lump
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
Work-Life Balance
Nervosa
Chunky
Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir
A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality
Ephemera: A Memoir
Look Again
Franky Banky in Tales of Mischief, Mayhem and Mirth
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
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
Green Lantern: Rebirth
Something Different About Dad
Seeing Guides
The Magic Fish
Cycling & Menstrupedia
Flung Out of Space
Twister
the fire never goes out: a memoir in pictures
The Book of Niall
How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual
Creepy, Joy of Quitting, My Begging Chart
Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars
Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings
Bipolar Bear’s Misadventures
Notes from a Sickbed
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
My Mom Had an Abortion
The Con Artists
Our Little Secret & Chartwell Manor
Hummingbird Heart
The Third Person
Vagina Love
Charisma Check: A Review of Just Roll with It by Veronica Agarwal and Lee Durfey-Lavoie
In Waves
Forgiveness: The Story of Eva Kor, Survivor of The Auschwitz Twin Experiments
Sweaty Palms: The Anthology about Anxiety
Two-Week Wait: An IVF Story
Two-Week Wait: An IVF Story
The Golden Hour
Mis(h)adra
When Stars Are Scattered
Rinse Spin Repeat
A Chance
Dancing at the Pity Party: a dead mom graphic memoir
Tyranny
Night Bus
Tower 25
All the places in between
IN.
Rebecca & Lucie
Alcohol Addiction: a Memoir and a Fiction
Hey, Kiddo
Shadow Life
Climate Change & Environmentalists
Parenthesis
Operation Pokies
The Hospital Suite
COVID Chronicles, Nib’s Pandemic & Comic News
Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of Infertility
The Thud
Come Home, Indio
There’s Only One Place This Road Ever Ends Up
My Degeneration – A Journey Through Parkinson’s
Found Stories of Losing Memories
Eating Matters
Fights by Joel Christian Gill
Sterben ist echt das Letzte
Fever Year & Invisible War
Bearing Stories
Great Hanoi Rat Hunt & Plagues
The Dark Matter of Mona Starr
Upgrade Soul
The Shepherd Vol 1-3
Go with the Flow
Eat More Comics: The Best of the Nib
I(V)F: A Memoir of Infertility
Last Pick
Take it as a Compliment
The Red Tree
Follow Me In
Back, Crack & Sack (& Brain)
Dumb: Living without a Voice
Rx
The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime & Poetry
Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life
First Year Out: A Transition Story
The Truth About Stacey
Lighter Than My Shadow
Imagine Wanting Only This
The Return of the Honey Buzzard by Aimée de Jongh
Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371
The Yellow Monkey Emperor’s Classic of Chinese Medicine
Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love by Jim Ottaviani & Dylan Meconis
Something Terrible by Dean Trippe
The Story Of My Tits
Good Eggs: A Memoir by Phoebe Potts
Moose
Sky in Stereo
Ghosts
The Bad Doctor – The Troubled Life and Times of Dr Iwan James
100 Months
Not Funny Ha-Ha: A Handbook For Something Hard
Billy, Me & You: A Memoir of Grief and Recovery
Tangles: Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me
Lisa’s Story: The Other Shoe
Psychiatric Tales
Relatively Indolent But Relentless: A Cancer Treatment Journal
Probably Nothing: A Diary of Not Your Average Nine Months
The Ring of Fire Anthology
Pregnant Butch
Marbles by Ellen Forney
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Nistar
Spooky Womb
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me
Depresso or: How I learned To Stop Worrying And Embrace Being Bonkers!
The Nao of Brown
Wrinkles
Spot 12: The Story of a Birth
Home Sweat Home
It’s a Bird
Level Up
Signature Wound: Rocking TBI
Tangles: A Story of Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me
Asylum Squad
Bodyworld
The House That Groaned
Things to do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park
Skinny Leg
The Road to God Knows
Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow
Soupe froide
Walking the Dog
Ma vie mal dessinée
Bonne santé
I’m Crazy
NURSE NURSE
When David Lost His Voice
Map of My Heart
Seeds
Are You My Mother?
It Takes A Village
Kiss Me Deadly
My New York Diary
Vertigo Verite: 7 Miles a Second
Finger Prints
Why I Killed Peter
Mammoir: A Pictorial Odyssey of the Adventures of a Fourth Grade Teacher With Breast Cancer
Swallow Me Whole
The Photographer
The Death of Captain Marvel
Kyle’s Bed and Breakfast
One Piece: Volume 1
The Most Natural Thing In The World – collected edition
I Am Not These Feet
Monsters
Psychiatric Tales
Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Crohns Disease
Comic Nurse
The Long Road Home: One Step at a Time
Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy
Years of the Elephant
Stitches: A Memoir
Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned
The Alcoholic
Mother, Come Home
Funny Misshapen Body: A Memoir
From Hell
Fun Home
Transhuman
It’s a Bird…
The Ride Together
Daddy’s Girl
I Never Liked You
The Minotaur’s Tale
Acme Novelty Library 18
Cancer Made Me A Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics
Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story
The Tale of One Bad Rat
My Diary
Black Hole
Mom’s Cancer
A Child’s Life and other stories
I Had a Black Dog
Justin Green’s Binky Brown Sampler
Our Cancer Year
The Complete Maus
Janet and Me: An Illustrated Story of Love and Loss
Cancer Vixen
Epileptic
