This month’s episode features a recording of the Mental Health Comics Panel from MICE 2018, Moderated by A. David Lewis, MCPHS University. Panelists include: Lucy Bellwood – 100 Demon Dialogues Kevin Budnik – Handbook LB Lee – MPD for You & Me Robyn Smith – Saddest, Angriest Black Girl in Town (also see this site.) Rachel Lindsay – Rx (also see this article.) Also relevant to this episode, quoting Matthew Noe’s This Week in Graphic Medicine, please note this Call for Papers: Invisible Made Visible: Comics and Mental Illness, to be edited by Leah Misemer & Jessica Gross. Matthew writes,… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (10/26/18)
‘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… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week’s pick comes with a content warning for suicide. As many of you know, I am a huge fan of Lunarbaboon, a webcomic series about parenting, depression, and nerd culture (my description). I periodically feature them below – but not every week and certainly not every… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (10/27/17)
Special Note: This is the last week that these posts will be cross-posted on The Graphic Librarian and on Graphic Medicine. Beginning next week, you will need to check, follow, or subscribe to Graphic Medicine for these updates! I will periodically post other content here in the future – perhaps a post about that next week… Also Special Note: The Pathographics conference is happening in Berlin this weekend! You’ll find tweets here from the opening night and the full first day of the event. The rest of the conference will be featured in next week’s post – and I’ll try to get… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (10/13/17 & 10/20/17)
Note: This is a double-issue, as I was too sick last week to do much of anything. Other Note: Posts from Friday, 10/20/17 will be included in next week’s post. I will be at a conference that entire day! ‘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 Content… Our friend and colleague Brian Fies (Mom’s Cancer), and his family,… Read More
MICE, Comics and Medicine
Our pal Cathy Leamy, a.k.a @metrokitty has been in touch to tell us that Boston Comics Roundtable is hosting their annual free indie comics fest, MICE (Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo), this coming Saturday, September 29. She is moderating a “Comics and Medicine” discussion panel at 11:00am – here’s the description: “Health, illness, and the physical body are major themes in many graphic novels (such as Cancer Vixen, Epileptic, and Stitches). Doctors, patients, and health educators are getting involved with comics as teaching tools and as a method of self-expression and exploring physical conditions. Moderator: Cathy Leamy Panelists: Kriota Willberg, LB Lee,… Read More