Two new pieces that feature Michael Green’s work at Penn State Hershey. First, a blog post from his class’s visiting comic artist, JT Waldman. Dr. Michael Green, the svelte bespectacled professor who invites me each year to his class at Penn State College of Medicine, greets me along the train tracks as he normally does. Michael has had me guest teach his Graphic Storytelling & Medical Narratives course for the last few years. We met back in 2009, when I did some workshops at his local community center. Since then, Dr. Green has tasked me to help his students develop their… Read More
Medical Library Display
My name is Sharon Daugherty and I work for the Penn State Harrell Health Sciences Library and Learning Commons in Hershey, PA, and I love comics. The photo you see here was the first of many graphic novel displays to come! I created a display to inspire our library patrons to think of comics as a valid and serious vehicle for storytelling. Comics can involve real people, not just capes and kid stuff. Some faculty still have a mindset that graphic novels aren’t serious literature. I think this is slowly changing since Dr. Michael Green started the Graphic Medicine curriculum… Read More