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Home / Simon Moreton

Better, Drawn

Aug. 27, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Geographer and cartoonist Simon Moreton (Smoo Comics) created Better, Drawn. Moreton says of his site, “Better, drawn is a place for people to share stories about long-term mental and physical illnesses, told in the form of short comics. The site is a way for people to write and draw about their experiences that might otherwise be difficult to talk about openly. In fact, we think that sometimes things can be said better when they’re drawn. Submissions are open to anyone with a story to tell about coping with illness.” You can also listen to Simon discuss community and comics in this podcast.

Tags: comics and medicine, comics as healing, DIY, mental illness, psychiatric, Simon Moreton, submissions

Paul Gravett’s Toronto Keynote

Aug. 8, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. New Podcast Wednesdays are back! To open the many podcasts that will emerge from the 2012 Toronto Comics & Medicine conference, comics historian, commentator, publisher, and Comica festival organizer Paul Gravett gave the opening keynote to the Toronto Comics & Medicine conference, “Setting the Context: Developments in Graphic Medicine.” Enjoy our new podcast feed. It is not yet available via iTunes, but, fingers crossed, it will be shortly.

Categories: Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012 Tags: Al Davison, Aliceheimer's, Andre Franc, Andrew Godfrey, Asylum Squad, Better, Billy Me & You, Booster Shot Comics, Comica Festival, comics and medicine, Dana Walrath, Drawn, Fabrice Neaud, Gérald Bernardin, Glyn Dillon, Graphic Medicine, Ian Williams, Iggy & The Inhalers, John Cei Douglas, Jordan Crane, Judith Vanistendael, Karrie Fransman, Keeping Two, Ken Dahl, Laurent Alexandre, Living Underwater, Loupette and the Moon, Macula Broccoli, man + doctor, Mita Mahato, monsters, Muscle Memory, Nancy Andrews, Nick Wadley, Nicola Streeten, Not Your Mother's Meat Loaf, Nye Wright, Paul Gravett, Polite Dissent, Ross MacIntosh, Sarafin, Sayia Miller, seeds, Simon Moreton, Spiral Cage, The CF Diaries, The House That Groaned, The Nao of Brown, Thierry Robberecht, Things to do in a retirement home trailer park, Toronto, Ty Templeton, University of Toronto, Wayne Boring, When David Lost His Voice, Yannick Dombi ou Le Choix de vivre

Ian Williams and Simon Moreton in Toronto

May. 23, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. Ian Williams is a doctor of medicine and comics creator under the pseudonym Thom Ferrier. He coined the term Graphic Medicine and set up the website to serve as a resource on the convergence of comics and medicine. Simon Moreton is doctor of human geography and comics creator under the name Smoo. He also established the better, drawn site which features,“Comics drawn by people with experience of living with long-term mental and physical illnesses.” Together they spoke to Shelley… Read More

Categories: Podcasts Tags: Ian Williams, Shelley Wall, Simon Moreton, University of Toronto

Simon Moreton on Rethinking the Comics ‘Community’

Jan. 18, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. “Making is a social practice.” – Moreton Simon Moreton is a cartoonist, writer and academic geographer based in Bristol. Simon  runs Better, Drawn, a blog where people can share stories about experience of long-term mental or physical illnesses in the form of comics. According to Simon, “The aim of this exploratory paper is to unpack a) how the collective constitution of stigma around physical and mental illness unfolds and b) how comics communities can be mobilised… Read More

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