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Graphic Public Health: A Comics Anthology and Road Map

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by Janet Chan After hearing Meredith Li-Vollmer speak about the steps one should take when finding a rat in your toilet during a webinar for the MLA (Medical Library Association) Humanities Caucus, I was looking forward to reading her work, Public Health: A Comics Anthology and Road Map. Ms. Li-Vollmer’s passion for imparting important information to the public shined through in both her webinar and book. This title features comics on which she collaborated and doubles as a guide for anyone who is interested in using comics to communicate health information. Each chapter showcases examples of how comics can be… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (9/7/18)

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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… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… Welcome back! I hope everyone has enjoyed the last hurrahs of Summer and things are settling back into semi-normalcy again – especially for those fellow academics out there. As you know, I took a break over the past month (more on why here), but now This Week… Read More

Graphic Medicine Manifesto Nominated for Eisner Award.

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The Graphic Medicine Manifesto has been nominated for an Eisner Award in the catagory Best Academic/Scholarly Work. One of the most prestigious awards in the industry, the Eisners – officially called the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards – are referred to as the ‘Oscars of comics’. A five-strong panel of judges compile the list of nominations which are then voted on by industry professionals, with the winners announced at the annual Comic-Con in San Diego in July. The Manifesto, published by Penn State University Press, has been very well received by specialist and non specialist readers alike. Written by MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Squier, Michael… Read More

Call for Submissions: Graphic Treatment – Zombies, Medicine and Comics.

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Sherryl Vint and Lorenzo Servitje of UC Riverside are proposing an edited volume for the graphic medicine book series from Penn State University Press, and are looking for papers. This interdisciplinary call for papers invites proposals for an edited volume on zombies in comics and graphic novels through the lens of medical discourse. Like many tropes in science fiction, the zombie crosses discursive boundaries to become a metaphor used in clinical and scientific literature. For example, it becomes a figurative mediation for patients who experience “zombification” and  the “dehumanizing” effects of illness and/or medical treatment, such as the numbing affect… Read More