by Dr. Laboni Das In Pregnancy and Birth, writer and midwife Laura Godfrey-Isaacs and illustrator Lilly Williams collaborate to produce what may be one of the most comprehensive, inclusive, and visually engaging guides to pregnancy and childbirth published in recent years. The book situates itself within the dynamic and socially engaged field of graphic medicine—“the intersection of medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare” that examines embodied experiences of illness, recovery, and caregiving through visual storytelling (Graphic Medicine Manifesto, 10th Anniversary Edition Czerweic et al.; Penn State University Press, 2025, pg. 1). Pregnancy and Birth offers a collective narrative… Read More
Stars in Their Eyes
awaiting review
A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns
guest review by A. David Lewis A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns is a not a work of Graphic Medicine; it is a work for all audiences, regardless of field, thereby making it perhaps just as vital to, if not targeted for, Graphic Medicine. Whereas sex-positive informative works like Oh Joy, Sex Toy! or women health-focused anthologies like Graphic Reproduction clearly announce their relevance to gender and medical concerns in the comics form, A Quick & Easy Guide… could easily get overlooked, dismissed as a narrow exploration for linguists, activists, or youth educators. And that would be Graphic… Read More