Soft Skull press has just released Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book edited by Saiya Miller and Liza Bley. Saiya presented her work on Meatloaf at Graphic Medicine conferences in Chicago and Toronto. I asked her to answer a few questions about this unique collection bursting with diverse and empowering words and images. (Full disclosure, I have a comic in the book!) MK: Tell us how this book came about, and in the process, describe for us what this book is. The book started as a project at Eugene Lang College while Liza Bley and… Read More
Meet the Organizer: Susan Squier
In the lead-up to the 2013 Brighton Comics & Medicine conference, to fill the gaping void that the Graphic Medicine podcast hiatus has left in your life, this week we introduce a series of posts meant to acquaint you with the folks behind the quickly approaching Graphic Medicine conference in Brighton. WHO I AM: Susan Squier WHAT I DO: Teach English and Women’s Studies at Penn State University, co-edit the Graphic Medicine book series at Penn State University Press with Ian Williams, and in 2014 I will be editing a special issue of CONFIGURATIONS, the journal of the Society for Literature, Science,… Read More