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. On 17 November, 2011, a one-day conference on Graphic Medicine was held at the Leeds Art Gallery. It was the second day of Comics Forum 2011, organized by Ian Hague. All of the conference audio will also be available here. In the coming weeks, we will be posting many of the wonderful talks. In this episode, North Wales physician Ian Williams, curator of the Graphic Medicine website, and organizer of the Graphic Medicine day of Comics Forum,… Read More
Emmanuelle Guibert's 'The Photographer': New Paper on the Comics Forum Website
Comics Forum director Ian Hague has emailed to say that he has posted a new paper by Isabelle Delorme on the website. The title is The first Afghanistan war through the glare of the Photographer and Emmanuelle Guibert and the paper was presented at the conference Comics & Conflicts: Stories of War in Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga 19/08/2011 – 20/08/2011 at the Imperial War Museum, London. I’m posting it here because of the medical relevance of Guibert’s Graphic Novel. Here is the abstract: The Afghanistan war (1979-1989) is not the subject of the graphic novel : The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders but… Read More
More on Leeds and Beyond
Andrew Godfrey (Sicker than Thou, The CF Diaries) has done a wonderful report on the Graphic Medicine conference on his blog. Thriving, eclectic, warm, encouraging, inspiring, and with plenty of laughs to be had, this open discourse between artists, academics, and health care professionals is surely an optimistic sign of the times. Thanks, Andrew – and not just because you said nice & helpful things about my talk. (But that’s certainly not discouraged. I had an artist patient who once told me, “I show my work to other people so they can tell me what they see.” I very much had that… Read More