Getting Started with Graphic Medicine in Comics Studies
Liaison: A. David Lewis
Bio: A. David Lewis is the Eisner Award-nominated author of American Comics, Religion, and Literary Theory: The Superhero Afterlife as well as co-editor of both Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels and Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation. Featured on numerous podcast and television programs, Dr. Lewis is currently program coordinator for the MHS degree at the MCPHS University School of Healthcare Business where his teaching and research focus on Graphic Medicine, specifically the depiction of cancer in comic books and graphic novels. A founder of library collections at both Boston University and MCPHS University, Dr. Lewis is currently program coordinator for the MHS degree at the his University’s School of Healthcare Business where his teaching and research focus on Graphic Medicine, specifically the depiction of cancer in comic books and graphic novels. In 2020, Lewis led the New England Graphic Medicine (NEGM) Virtual Summit as the COVID crisis first took hold nationally. Finally, he is the acclaimed author of such comics as The Lone and Level Sands or the current Kismet, Man of Fate, telling the modern-day adventures of the WWII Muslim superhero.
Contact: Find A. David Lewis by email at a.lewis@mcphs.edu and/or on Twitter using the handle @adlewis
Key texts, reading suggestions, and resources:
Books
The Death of Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin
Mom’s Cancer by Brian Fies
Stitches by David Smalls
Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person by Miriam Engelberg
Mighty Thor: Thunder in Her Veins by Jason Aaron et al
Lisa’s Story: The Other Shoe by Tom Batiuk
I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and J. M. Ken Niimura
Pedagogical/Programming Tools
Digital Graphic Medicine Catalog: Comics and Graphic Novels Electronically Available for Healthcare
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