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Dementia 21: Volume 1

Mar. 9, 2020 by Kevin Wolf

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Book Review by Kevin Wolf Dementia 21: Volume 1 by Shintaro Kago is the first horror graphic novel that I’ve read that fits into the graphic medicine genre. Fantagraphics Books, Inc. (FBI), the publisher not known for manga, has published a couple dozen manga so far, including Fukushima Devil Fish by Katsumata Susumu (translated by Ryan Holmberg) with a story of cleaning up the Fukushima nuclear power plant after the tsunami, a real life horror. This is also my first manga review. It follows a home health aide (called home help aide in the manga) treating various patients under difficult… Read More

Tags: caregiving, Home Health Aide, horror - fiction

A Journey to Motherhood by Camille Aubry – Chapter 4

Jan. 20, 2020 by Ian Williams

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Graphic Medicine is very proud to present the fourth chapter of Camille Aubry’s A Journey to Motherhood.This is  an autobiographical comic book diary depicting the fun and less-fun bits of maternity, from pregnancy to the toddler years, told with dry, and at times caustic, humour.   Read Chapter 3 here.  Read Chapter Five > Next installment will be posted on the 27th of January. Visit Camille’s website. Follow Camille on Instagram. Camille Aubry is a French graphic artist based in Bristol. She graduated as an architect in Paris before completing an MA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts. Camille works as… Read More

Categories: Brighton 2019, caregiving, comic strip, comics, Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Graphic Novels, Health Education Tags: Camille Aubry, caregiving, maternity, Motherhood

All Is Not Well – New Website

Nov. 19, 2017 by Ian Williams

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Developed by Cardiff University and a group of independent comic creators, All Is Not Well aims to reflect the reality of life as a care giver via a series of short comic strips. Working in care has become one of the most thankless and undervalued jobs in society, yet it is one of the most important.  Our aim is to try and give voice to some of the people involved in the caring of others. The site will host a variety of  strips from creators who have worked as carers or been cared for themselves. These will feature alongside interviews with the creators, as well… Read More

Categories: Call for Art, Call for Collaboration, caregiving, comic strip, comics, Comics and Medicine, drawing Tags: All Is Not Well, caregiving, carers, jonathan clode

Carol Tyler: Bringing It All Back Home

Nov. 25, 2015 by Comic Nurse

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In this week’s Graphic Medicine Podcast, Carol Tyler’s keynote address from the Graphic Medicine 2015 conference in Riverside, California. The talk is titled, “Bringing It All Back Home.” With this being the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., I thought it would be a great tie-in to post Carol’s talk in conjunction with the Great Thanksgiving Listen. Here’s a video about that project from StoryCorps: Carol Tyler’s monumental book, Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father was released this week. The process which led to the creation of this book was a monumental act of intense listening, intense caregiving,… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Graphic Novels, Health Humanities, Medical Humanities, Podcast, Podcasts, Riverside 2015, Uncategorized Tags: cancer, caregiving, listening, PTSD, stroke, veterans

Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park When You Are 29 and Unemployed

Dec. 18, 2014 by Comic Nurse

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guest review by Chicago medical student Brian Kim Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park … When You’re 29 and Unemployed is a beautiful approach to discussing the various facets of death in one’s life.   Aneurin Wright depicts his journey in caring for his father, who is dying from emphysema. He illustrates the profound memories that form the foundation for his relationship with his father, as well as fundamental memories that have formulated his father’s relationships.   Additionally, he depicts his thoughts and daydreams that highlight his anguish and frustration with his situation and also the reconciliation of his relationship… Read More

Tags: caregiving, COPD, Emphysema, hospice, palliative care

New Podcast: Joyce Farmer and Paul Gravett in Conversation

Feb. 20, 2013 by Comic Nurse

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“I put something amusing in every two pages.” – Joyce Farmer “Every exit should be special.” – Paul Gravett The last session from our 2012 Comics & Medicine conference in Toronto presents the magnificent Joyce Farmer in conversation with Paul Gravett. They discuss her long career making comics on medical themes, from “Tits & Clits” to “Abortion Eve” to Special Exits. Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. The featured image for the podcast is a crayoned self-portrait Joyce did during Michael Green and… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012, Uncategorized Tags: Abortion Eve, caregiving, elderly, Fantagraphics, geriatric, Joyce Farmer, Paul Gravett, Special Exits, Tits & Clits

New Podcast: Comics & Medicine in the Mainstream

Jan. 30, 2013 by Comic Nurse

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This is Panel 13 from last summer’s Comics & Medicine conference in Toronto. In this episode we will hear from three speakers in two presentations. Both will address medically-relevant themes as they have appeared in mainstream media comics. Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. “Facing” illness: what the “funnies” can teach us about caregiver role, response, and needs Sarah Russe and Judith Kaplan-Weinger An overt focus on the effects of illness is still rare in mainstream syndicated comics. One of the… Read More

Categories: comic strip, Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Graphic Novels, papers, Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012, Uncategorized Tags: adoption, Between Friends, breast cancer, caregiver, caregiver needs, caregiving, discourse analysis, domestic abuse, Funky Winkerbean, infertility, infertility treatment, Lisa's Story, mainstream comics, mammogram, Sandra Bell Lundy, sociolinguistics, Tom Batiuk, visual semiotics

New Podcast: Comics & Caregiving

Dec. 26, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. Our eleventh panel from Toronto and they just keep getting better and better! I, MK, had the honor of moderating this panel and am quite pleased to revisit and post it here. The first speaker is Michelle N. Huang,  a Master’s Student and University Graduate Fellow at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include disability studies, war literature, and cultural studies in the twentieth century. She writes of her paper, The “Good Enough Daughter”… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Graphic Novels, Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012, Uncategorized Tags: Alzheimer's, Ameila DeFalco, care ethics, caregiving, curography, disability, disability ethics, Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, Joyce Farmer, McMaster University, Michelle Huang, Our Cancer Year, Penn State, Sarah Leavitt, Special Exits, Tangles, Winnicott

Home Sweat Home

Aug. 27, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Tags: caregiving, elderly, fiction, stroke, TIA

Tangles: A Story of Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me

Aug. 27, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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guest review by Katie Delaney, MD/MA program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine   “Sarah: What’s it like, Dad? Dad: I don’t know. I guess sometimes it turns out that everything you thought about how the future would be just isn’t true.” – Tangles, page 46   Tangles is a poignant and clever name for Sarah Leavitt’s graphic memoir about her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease. First, there is the way Leavitt’s partner describes the mind of Sarah’s ailing mother: “Like the garden this summer… tangled, but with spots of brightness.” (114). Then, there is the fact that… Read More

Tags: Alzheimer's, alzheimer's disease, caregiving, cognitive decline, hospice, memory loss, mother

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