by Matt Peters In We Live Here: Detroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing Justice, writer Jeffrey Wilson and illustrator Bambi Kramer have composed a collective biography of grassroots activists fighting an unfair economy. Those activists, all based in the Detroit metropolitan area, were brought together by a debt crisis that shook the nation and threatened the loss of their homes. Using graphic journalism to tell their stories, Wilson and Kramer have created an engrossing movement history. In telling that history, they often illuminate the critical links between health and housing security. We Live Here focuses on a… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (11/30/18)
‘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… Note: There are items dating back to 11/21 here due to the Holiday in the US last week Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week I’m cheating again and having two picks. In my defense though, it is because I had already picked out a comic and then realized (thanks to Ian’s… Read More