‘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… Continuing the trend of highlighting the National Library of Medicine’s work with Graphic Medicine, this week I want to highlight the latest GM Podcast, in which MK discusses the field with Dr. Patricia Brennan, director of the NLM. I encourage you to head right over and listen… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/2/18)
‘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 is yet another no-contest for pick of the week, since on Thursday, March 1st, we saw Dr. Patti Brennan, head of the National Library of Medicine, moderate A Conversation about Graphic Medicine with Ellen Forney, MK Czerwiec, and Dr. Michael Green. This talk was coordinated to go… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (2/16/18)
‘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… For the first time since I started this section of the blog, I am actually highlighting a specific published comic (yes I really did take more than a month to do so). The always fabulous Cathy Leamy (@metrokitty on Twitter) saw her comic, IBD Comic: The Bittersweetness of… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (1/19/18)
‘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 will be unsurprising, but I want to highlight the launching of the National Library of Medicine’s new traveling exhibit, “Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well Drawn“. This has been a long work in progress (2014!) and was created and curated by rock star of graphic… Read More