The Graphic Medicine 2026 Conference in Baltimore is is now open for registration! For the 2026 conference, the Graphic Medicine International Collective is collaborating with Johns Hopkins University to host the three day event from July 23-25, 2026. This year’s theme is Drawing Perspectives: Health Graphic Narratives Under Pressure. We’re looking forward to exploring this theme broadly to include the many ways our community of graphic medicine authors, artists, and scholars leverage the medium of comics to propose diverse perspectives on healthcare, illness, disability, or social medicine, often working under various pressures–whether these relate to living with chronic illness, shifting… Read More
2026 Graphic Medicine Conference
The Graphic Medicine International Collective is thrilled to announce that the annual Graphic Medicine conference will be held in Baltimore, at Johns Hopkins University, on July 23-25, 2026. The conference theme is Drawing Perspectives: Health Graphic Narratives Under Pressure. We will explore this theme broadly to include the many ways our community of graphic medicine authors, artists, and scholars leverage the medium of comics to propose diverse perspectives on healthcare, illness, disability, or social medicine, often working under various pressures, whether these relate to living with chronic illness, shifting institutional conditions for health and medical research and care practices, or other… Read More
2020 Graphic Medicine Conference – More to Come!
Many of you have begun messaging about information for the 2020 Graphic Medicine Conference – we love your enthusiasm! We want to assure you that planning is ongoing, rapidly, and you should expect to begin seeing more information soon, including this year’s theme and call for papers. In the meantime, some of you may have missed our 2020 location as announced during the 2019 conference closing. The 2020 Graphic Medicine Conference will be held in Toronto, Canada! You may recall that the 2012 conference – Comics and Medicine: Navigating the Margins – was also held in Toronto, and the organizers… Read More
Graphic Medicine Conference – Live Scribing by Camille Aubry
Our Graphic Medicine conference – Que(e)rying Graphic Medicine : Paradigms, Practices and Power – was held in Brighton last week. It was a great success. The magic was there again this year, as it has been at all the previous conferences. We engaged Camille Aubry to live scribe the proceedings. Camille is a French illustrator and comic book artist based in Bristol. She graduated as an architect in Paris before completing an MA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts. Through her artwork Camille likes to document stories of activism, whether they are born in the streets or at home,… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (6/14/19)
‘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… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… No pick this week, but an important bit of news: This Week in Graphic Medicine will be on hiatus, after this issue, until August. I announced this on Twitter yesterday as well. The primary reason for the break is that I am both taking time off and doing a great deal of travel in the next month-and-a-half, so finding a chance… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (6/7/19)
‘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… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week I want to point you to a new feature of the graphic medicine website: spotlights! We get a dozen or more messages a week about exciting projects, new books, inquiries to learn more – and there are just 4 of us – so this is a new way for us to help share information about the work of everyone… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (5/10 – 5/17/19)
‘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… Personal Note… This edition of TWIGM is strange in that it covers the period of May 4th to May 15th. There was a death in the family that has upended routine here, so I apologize for the strangeness. Keep in mind that this means the next edition will also be strange as it plays catch-up to include the rest of this week (5/16 and 5/17). Matthew’s… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (4/19 – 4/26/19)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles 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’s picks include big news about the Brighton Conference: Brighton keynote speaker announcement: Dr. Meg-John Barker! The conference is really shaping up to be an amazing event and I’m looking forward to seeing as many of you there as possible! If you have any questions about this year’s… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (4/12/19)
‘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… As it should! #NEGraphicMedCon was great – thank you for putting it on @nnlmner! #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/pMQQj7hh8A — Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) April 10, 2019 This week, I suggest heading to Twitter and catching up on the great event that was the NNLM NER New England Graphic Medicine Con!… 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