Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum announces Power Lines: Comics and the Environment (shown below), a new exhibition on a public health issue: the environment and human’s effect on it. BICLM is on campus at The Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio. For some specific graphic works related to this topic, see a recent graphic medicine review on Climate Change and Environmentalists (https://www.graphicmedicine.org/comic-reviews/climate-change-environmentalists/) Power Lines: Comics and the Environment November 13, 2021 – May 8, 2022 At the start of the 21st century, the term Anthropocene was coined to describe a new geological epoch defined by humanity’s transformation of the natural world. Scientists have long known… Read More
Medical Mentions Book Reviews II
Medical Mentions is a different type of posting at graphicmedicine.org. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often five or more pages. The reviewer will usually neither recommend or discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be provided with one paragraph for each book with the medical mention. The first medical… Read More
Climate Change & Environmentalists
Wild Weather: Storms, Meteorology, and Climate The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change Climate Changed: A Personal Journey through Science Thunder & Lightening: Weather, Past, Present, Future Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt Seen (True Stories of Marginalized Trailblazers): Rachel Carson Post York Books Reviewed by Kevin Wolf Public health, which effects a large population, can sometimes have a greater effect than working on each person’s health, separately. Such public health issues as pandemics, sanitation, and food safety have sweeping effects on any population. Climate Change is the primary topic discussed in many of the… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (5/24 – 5/31/19)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights news about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary. So without further ado… Note… This Week is a double issue that also includes 5/16 and 5/17. Matthew’s Pick of the Week… Co-Editor of this graphic medicine, Alice Jaggers, is going to be giving a webinar titled: Panels as Windows: Graphic Medicine and Empathy, a Tool to Understanding Patients, Caregivers, and Healthcare Professionals on June 12th! Since it is being put on by the NNLM SCR, it is free to attend… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/29 – 4/5/19)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week I want to draw your attention to a couple of comics published in The Nib that you might not normally consider when thinking about graphic medicine. The first, titled It’s Time to Rethink How Recycling is Done is a depressing look by cartoonist Katie Wheeler at… Read More