This week on the Graphic Medicine Podcast: award winning Alaska cartoonist Peter Dunlap-Shohl talks about his new graphic memoir, My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson’s.
Segment 1: Graphic Medicine News
In this week’s Graphic Medicine news, the official announcement of the 2016 Comics & Medicine conference and call for papers. The conference will be held July 7-9 at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Our keynote speakers will be Lynda Barry, Al Davison, and Elisabeth El Refaie. Our theme will be “Stages & Pages.”
Our on-site coordinator and host, Andrew Godfrey created the fantastic conference artwork.
Segment 2: My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson’s
This segment features an interview with Peter Dunlap-Shohl about his new book. This book arose from his two blogs, Frozen Grin and On & Off: The Alaska Parkinson’s Rag. My Degeneration was reviewed this week by the Alaska News Dispach.
Segment 3: What Are You Reading?!
For my What Are You Reading Segment this week, I thought I’d speak with someone about reading My Degeneration. I got in touch with Bill Bell, founder of the Northwest Parkinson’s Foundation.
Support for this podcast comes from Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Humanities, the nation’s oldest Humanities Department within a medical school, pioneers of innovations in medical education since 1967. To learn more about Penn State College of Medicine Department of Humanities, go to www2.med.psu.edu/humanities.
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