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Down to the Bone – A Leukemia Story
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Radium Girls
By Karol Kovalovich Weaver Cy.’s Radium Girls tells the story of a group of twentieth-century American working-class women who suffered from and died as a result of radium poisoning. The women worked in a watch factory painting the numbers on watch faces. Unaware of the dangers of the radioactive paint, the women prepped their brushes with their tongues. In addition, they used the paint as nail polish, applied it as makeup, and decorated their dresses with it. Ultimately, they developed radium poisoning, experiencing tooth loss, miscarriages, pain, the inability to walk, and death. Facing physical, emotional, and economic hardships, the… Read More
How I Broke Up with My Colon – Fascinating, Bizarre, and True Health Stories
by Christian Bellmore How I Broke Up with My Colon – Fascinating, Bizarre, and True Health Stories, is the most recent of Nick Seluk’s (creator of The Awkward Yeti webcomic) books, illustrates twenty-four medical stories submitted by folks around the world, most of which are wild and bizarre—some stuck with me so much that they’ve made appearances in my dreams! This book’s aimed for teenagers and adults, especially those who like strange medical stories. I’ve been a fan of the The Awkward Yeti webcomic for a while, so it surprised me that How I Broke Up with My Colon was… Read More
Spotlight: Sarc, by Cole Henley
Sarc is a short comic I did to try and communicate my experiences late in 2019 when I was diagnosed with Sarcoidosis. I wanted to convey some of the medical journey but also my personal experiences and the impact on those around me. The comic is deliberately left open ended because diagnosis for many is just the start of a journey, especially with chronic illnesses. I (Cole Henley) am a web developer, illustrator and recovering archaeologist from Somerset. You can find out more about me over on my website: https://cole007.net/
Janet & Me – An Illustrated Story of Love and Loss
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Embroidered Cancer Comic
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Springtime in Chernobyl
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Our Last Six Months – An Illustrated Memoir About Life, Cancer, End-of-Life Care, Love, Family, and Forgiveness
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Hummingbird Heart
Guest Review by A. David Lewis In her book Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability, Eszter Szép analyzes Joe Sacco’s The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo in terms of haptic vision. Drawing on the work of Laura U. Marks, Szép explains haptic vision as the visible made tactile, “a mode of visual perception that is synesthetic in nature: It connects tactile and kinesthetic sensibilities with vision without the actual act of touch” (120). She describes the thickly cross-hatched backgrounds of The Fixer as “haptically charged” (121), causing the reader to pause and to experience Sacco’s own embodied… Read More
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