Ian and I (MK) have been hard at work in frigid, snowy Chicago on the comic that will serve as the introduction to the Graphic Medicine Manifesto, the first book in the Graphic Medicine series to be published by Penn State University Press.
(I love seeing Ian surrounded by my artwork and the artwork of friends.)
Cramming in a few more panels before going out to dinner last night.
The book will be a very unique one. For the introductory comic we are working on, we’ve been using scripts and avatars created by our co-authors on the Manifesto: Michael Green, Kimberly Meyers, Scott Smith and Susan Squier. The book will then include text essays by each of the authors about their area of work in Graphic Medicine. Each chapter will start with the authors “origin story” with comics and how they’ve come to integrate them into their scholarship. The book will also be an anthology of great works of Graphic Medicine, as each chapter will be followed with an example chosen by that chapter’s author. The conclusion will feature testimonial avatars by almost thirty members of the interdisciplinary graphic medicine community commenting on the impact graphic medicine has had on their work. See what I mean by a unique book?!
We completed the introduction this AM, twenty pages in a week, which for me is a very good rate. (Can’t speak for Ian on this one, I suspect with his forthcoming graphic novel, The Bad Doctor, he has been keeping an even better pace. ) Ian flies back to the UK later today. A week later I’ll start teaching my first graphic memoir course at Columbia College Chicago.
The adventures in comics continue!
bravo MK and Ian, we salute you!