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Whistle – A New Gotham City Hero

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by Jeff Mason Set in the DC Comics universe, Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero is an easy-to-read 6-chapter story of a teenager’s well-intentioned efforts to help her family make ends meet. The story follows 16-year-old Willow Zimmerman, a non-super-powered, Jewish teenager with a penchant for local activism and a love of stray dogs. Willow is growing up in Down River, an historically Jewish neighbourhood that has seen better days and whose residents are currently troubled by a murderous gangster and the mystery of buildings suddenly being “greened” by lush vegetation. Along the way we meet Willow’s Down River High… Read More

Ripple Effects

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By PF Anderson   Ripple Effects, from Fanbase Press, is one of my absolutely favorite graphic novels. I can’t stop talking about it to pretty much everyone around me. Given the slightest opportunity, I bring it up. One of the first things I say is, “This is like a master class in how to do health literacy. I expect this to become a model that others follow.” More on that shortly. Meanwhile, if you don’t have time to read the rest of this review and are teetering on the fence about whether or not to buy it, skip the review… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (2/15 – 2/22/19)

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‘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… First, apologies for a lack of an update last week – as many of you know, I live with chronic pain, generally focused on my left leg. It dictates how much energy I have on any given day and sometimes that means doing less, including digital things…. Read More

Nistar

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guest review by Ryan Montoya   A hero story has three parts: origin, conflict, and resolution. Nistar, the 2013 graphic novel by first time comic book author and expressive arts therapist Shira Frimer, with art by Joe Rubinstein, is a hero story. All the elements are there. We have our hero in Dr. Jacob Barak, an emergency medicine physician. We have our origin story explaining how Dr. Barak obtained his superpowers. We have our conflict in Dr. Barak trying to defend a young child against an evil force flanked by a dark army. We have our resolution with our hero… Read More