by Janet Chan Fans of Julia Quinn may be wondering why she is on a list of graphic medicine titles. Well, fear not dear readers, Ms. Quinn has not abandoned her signature romance genre. She has partnered with her sister, Violet Charles, to create the graphic novel, Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron, which is at heart a romance novel. What sets this graphic novel into the graphic medicine category are Ms. Butterworth’s adventures of being a survivor of a smallpox outbreak, provider of elder care, and medical detective. The story starts with the 1797 birth of Miss Butterworth in… Read More
The Naked Tree
by Matt Peters The trauma of violence can linger decades later, waiting for the slightest reminder to bring it back to the surface. A resemblance of something from the past can steal the survivor from the present, forcing them to relive a separation, a loss, or an atrocity. Clinical terms like post-traumatic stress disorder can’t fully describe how the experience permeates a survivor’s life, turning the past into something inescapable. It can haunt not only survivors but also their posterity, as behavioral cues and epigenetic markers—chemical changes to DNA—are passed on to the next generation, causing the initial shock… Read More
Threads – From the Refugee Crisis
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Stealing Home
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Harriet Tubman – Toward Freedom
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Dear Mini – A Graphic Memoir
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Barefoot Gen Vol 01-10
awaiting review Vol 01 – A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima Vol 02 – The Day After Vol 03 – Life after the Bomb Vol 04 – Out of the Ashes Vol 05 – The Never-Ending Story Vol 06 – Writing the Truth Vol 07 – Bones into Dust Vol 08 – Merchants of Death Vol 09 – Breaking Down Borders Vol 10 – Never Give Up
So Much for Love: How I Survived a Toxic Relationship
by Soph Myers-Kelley Sophia Lambda in So Much for Love: How I Survived a Toxic Relationship shares the vulnerable truth of her experience dating a manipulative, abusive person with scathing honesty, and jumping off the page emotions. Her art utilizes beautifully soft and embracing lines, and the use of color is perhaps the star of the (visual) show. While most of the art is black and white and grey, Lambda uses one or two bright colors to emphasize the mood of a given scene and the emotions she’s feeling. It makes the images pop and draws your attention to important… Read More
The Talk
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Stamped from the Beginning – A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America
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