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Something, Not Nothing – A Story of Grief and Love

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by Soph Myers-Kelley Something Not Nothing is a gorgeously poetic work of art that focuses on the topic of losing one’s spouse to medically assisted death. Sarah Leavitt masterfully translates the untranslatable- losing your partner, who has suffered for decades with chronic pain. Leavitt expresses her conflict of wanting that pain to stop for her wife and knowing how much she’ll miss her when she’s gone, how a part of her will feel missing forever. Leavitt uses poetic narration and complements it with watercolor paintings, ink drawings, as well as colored pencil art. The print book is larger (9” x… Read More

On Comics and Grief

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by Liz Argall   Summary Dr. Dale Jacobs is a white male academic living in North America. As he has aptly noted in his book, he is the iconically catered to demographic when it comes to Anglophone comics. Born in 1966, he is at the start of Generation X, although his childhood in rural Alberta has definite Baby Boomer childhood vibes soaked in nostalgia. It is the sort of childhood I feel like I grew up watching on the TV, full of nostalgia and newspaper stands, a mother who sews cloths and bakes. While he has factors that cause him… Read More

Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders

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By Anita White   “It [is] difficult to find … readers who are willing to take on the challenging task of bearing witness to our difficult stories. … Comics in healthcare [i.e., Graphic Medicine] can uniquely bear witness to stigmatized stories, ones that might not find a home elsewhere, stories that are often hard to tell and to receive….” From an introduction by Michael Green and Mk Czerwiec to the chapter “Before Last Things: An Interview with Marissa Moss and Joshua Feder,” page 37   I was moved by the documentary stories in Jewish Women in Comics that cover a… Read More

Online Research Seminar – Free Registration

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On Monday 25th of April Monica Lalanda and Ian Williams will take part in an online research seminar about Graphic Medicine organised by RACSS – the Research & Comics seminar series. They will be discussing the graphic medicine movement in the UK and Spain. Lily Daniels will be the graphic recorder for the day. The event is online and free but registration is needed. https://lnkd.in/dgwdarwP Registration grants access to the recorded seminar in case attendees would like to view it at another time instead of live. RACSS is a collaboration between Lydia Wysocki (Newcastle University), Jorge Catalá (Newcastle University) and… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (11/22/2019)

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‘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 covers the period of 11/9 until 11/22 as there was not a post in the week between. Matthew’s Pick of the Week… We have a Toronto Conference Date: July 16 – 19, 2020! We have a Toronto Conference Theme: Graphic Medicine In/During Troubled Times: Social Justice and Human Rights! We have a hashtag too: #GraphMed2020! Expect the call for papers to come by December… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (11/2/18 – 11/9/18)

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‘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… Be Advised… You’ll notice that this edition is a two-week collection – this time because I am barely staying above water with my workload. But I wanted to make sure to point out that the next month-and-a-half is a heavy period of holiday’s in the US. That means that these posts will… Read More

Chat, Collaborate, Learn, and More in the Graphic Medicine Facebook Group

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Following the fantastic 2018 conference, we have launched a new Graphic Medicine Facebook Group so that the conversations and collaborations can continue year-round in a more accessible space! You can request access to the group by following this link: Graphic Medicine. The group is moderated by the team of Ian Williams, MK Czerwiec, and Matthew Noe. Don’t let the language here mislead – this is a public group, meant for anyone interested! Not sure what you’d use the group for? Ian, in the first post in the group, has some ideas: “connecting with potential collaborators; publicizing your work; sharing teaching… Read More