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The Brain: The Ultimate Thinking Machine

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Guest Review by Faye Albert The Brain: The Ultimate Thinking Machine by writer Tory Woollcott and illustrated by Alex Graudins is a compendium of information about the brain and nervous system. This information is reported by a scientist embedded in the story of two sisters engaged in a project to earn an achievement patch. The artwork is quite good.  The characters making up the storyline are comic-book type characters, except for one of the villains, Dr. Cerebrum who looks like a brain inside a bow-tied glass-jar headed body. The illustrations of the brain, neurons, cells and nerves are particularly impressive… Read More

Comics on the Brain

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Via a retweet by Matt Madden of Drawing Words and Writing Pictures, a researcher at Tufts looking at how (and where) our brains assemble the visual language of comics. The article in Discover article, titled, “The Brain, The Charlie Brown Effect”  looks closely at sequential art with and without narrative significance. “People are able to predict what’s coming next,” Cohn says, “even if there’s no meaning to it.” The study the article is citing (full PDF courtesy of the author) is available on researcher Neil Cohn’s website. Also an earlier article (pdf full text via author’s website) where Cohen takes on Scott McCloud’s… Read More

Graphic Pharmacy

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Via friend of Graphic Medicine Paula Knight, a graphic study of the perceived minds of community pharmacists while working.     Error Girl, aka Hannah Family, is a third year PhD student at the University of Bath. Her research team is looking into the relationship between mental workload and medication dispensing errors. As part of their study, they are asking community pharmacists to fill out this blank brain template as a means of self-reporting what is on the pharmacist’s mind whilst working on filling scripts. This is another fascinating medical project utilizing knowing-through-drawing. I would love to see this kind of research… Read More