‘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 don’t have a pick in the traditional sense. Rather, I want to pause and dedicate our work in the medical humanities this week to Dr. Arnold P. Gold, who passed away on January 23rd. He was 92. The foundation named for him posted this tribute… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (1/19/18)
‘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’s pick will be unsurprising, but I want to highlight the launching of the National Library of Medicine’s new traveling exhibit, “Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well Drawn“. This has been a long work in progress (2014!) and was created and curated by rock star of graphic… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (1/5/18)
‘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… Articles & More… Kickstarter: A book that will get us talking: Diversity and Inclusion Webcomic: A comic about the problems with the -omics, illustrated by Matteo Farinella Webcomic: Mommy & Me Yoga Poses Scholarly: Annals Graphic Medicine – Back to Work Scholarly: Ten simple rules for drawing scientific comics Scholarly: Smiles, Apologies, and Drawing Trauma-Informed Care… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (12/29/17)
‘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… Comics and Medicine: The Way We Work The Center for Cartoon Studies has launched its page for the 2018 Graphic Medicine Conference! Here you’ll find logistical information – dates and some basic travel information – as well as confirmed keynote speakers. You will also find the call-for-papers information – proposals are due January 30th,… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (12/22/17)
‘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… Comics and Medicine: The Way We Work The Center for Cartoon Studies has launched its page for the 2018 Graphic Medicine Conference! Here you’ll find logistical information – dates and some basic travel information – as well as confirmed keynote speakers. You will also find the call-for-papers information – proposals are due January 30th,… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (11/17/17 & 11/24/17)
‘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… Note: This Week is actually two weeks. 11/23 is the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, so this will cover from 11/10’s post until 11/22. Next week will catch anything from the later half of this one. Have a good holiday for those celebrating! Comics and Medicine: The Way We Work The Center… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (11/10/17)
‘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… Articles & More… CFP: 2018 Comics and Popular Arts Conference CFP: SANE: Sequential Art Narratives in Education (for Spring 2018) CFP: LUNE 00: DISORDER CFP: Special Issue of the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, Spring 2019 Storify: Art Spiegelman: Comics is the Yiddish of Art Storify: MK Czerwiec @ComicNurse : Taking Turns #iia17 Event: The HEAL Symposium Event: A Graphic… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (11/3/17)
‘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… Ongoing… Follow along with the International Comic Arts Festival in Seattle this weekend with the hashtag #ICAF2017! I will include a handful of tweets from it in this week and likely next week’s posts, but much of it is only tangentially related – and I couldn’t get it all if I tried!… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (10/27/17)
Special Note: This is the last week that these posts will be cross-posted on The Graphic Librarian and on Graphic Medicine. Beginning next week, you will need to check, follow, or subscribe to Graphic Medicine for these updates! I will periodically post other content here in the future – perhaps a post about that next week… Also Special Note: The Pathographics conference is happening in Berlin this weekend! You’ll find tweets here from the opening night and the full first day of the event. The rest of the conference will be featured in next week’s post – and I’ll try to get… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (10/13/17 & 10/20/17)
Note: This is a double-issue, as I was too sick last week to do much of anything. Other Note: Posts from Friday, 10/20/17 will be included in next week’s post. I will be at a conference that entire day! ‘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… Special Content… Our friend and colleague Brian Fies (Mom’s Cancer), and his family,… Read More