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Graphic Medicine Manifesto – Book Review

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by Kevin Wolf   Though Graphic Medicine Manifesto (Manifesto from hereon) by MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J. Green, Kimberly R. Myers, and Scott T. Smith[i] hasn’t been reviewed at www.graphicmedicine.org it has appeared many times at the website. It’s appearances include when it’s publication was first announced, a blurb about Manifesto, a podcast  with all the authors, a link to a review in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, when it was nominated for an Eisner Award, and being part of the annotated bibliography of Essential Graphic Medicine. I’m somewhat embarrassed that it’s taken me… 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 (9/20/2019)

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Special Note: This week has been brought to you by Alice Jaggers. ‘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… Alice’s Pick of the Week… This week I’m choosing to highlight the newest post of our sister website Medicina Grafica. It is a review in Spanish of the Spanish edition of El Club De Las Canguro El Secreto De Stacey (The Babysitter’s Club Stacey’s Secret), which explores Stacey’s diabetes diagnosis. Articles & More… Event:… Read More

CALL FOR PAPERS – Graphic Medicine – A Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly

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Guest Editors: Erin La Cour (Free University of Amsterdam) and Anna Poletti (Utrecht University) Submit: Abstracts of 300–500 words in length by September 15, 2019 to biographygraphicmedicine@gmail.com. In recent years, Graphic Medicine has emerged as an important movement in changing attitudes to patient experience within the practice of Western medicine. Combining insights from life writing and comics studies, Graphic Medicine texts and scholarship evidence the efficacy of life narrative in the medium of comics for opening up new channels of communication between medical staff, patients, their loved ones, and the community; providing alternative sites for community building among patients and… Read More

Conference Registration is open

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Conference registration for the 2019 International Graphic Medicine Conference in Brighton is now open. We had a phenomenal response to our call for papers with over 150 proposals from 22 countries. Abstracts were selected by a team of seven people. One of the selectors, Profession Susan Squier commented: “Things have gone to another level with regards to the standard of proposals for this conference. The field is maturing. We had so many excellent proposals, some of which critique the field” The link for registration is HERE.  There are 100 earlybird places available at £100, after which the price goes up… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (2/2/2019)

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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… Special Note… I am stepping in again for Matthew. Congratulations again on the nuptials, Matthew! – Alice Jaggers Alice’s Pick of the Week… This week I am using this space to call out Side Defects. There is a Kickstarter for this book that I am pretty excited about. It is “a book… Read More