by M.T. Bennett “Graphic medicine” is not a term describing horrific injuries but instead examines the intersection of healthcare with visual media, primarily comics. As graphic medicine has matured from an emerging niche into an established interdisciplinary field, it has become increasingly important to explain or clarify what is “graphic medicine” This is where Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine (shortened to Keywords/Keyimages herein), edited by Lisa Diedrich and Briana Martino comes into play. This collection shares how health and illness can be communicated through a constellation of concepts, images, practices, and conversations. The editors’ note in their introduction that, borrowing… Read More
The Bad Doctor – The Troubled Life and Times of Dr Iwan James
Review first published in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2016 The Bad Doctor: The Troubled Life and Times of Dr. Iwan James is a riveting, debut graphic novel by Ian Williams, a celebrated medical humanist and founder of the Graphic Medicine website. He previously published using the nom de plume Thom Ferrier and contributed a series of comic strips for the Guardian. In The Bad Doctor, inspired by Justin Green’s Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary and by his own experience of the continuing secondary effects of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), Ian Williams deftly evokes the world of country GP Dr Iwan James’s deep… Read More

