In this entertaining, reflective, and insightful talk from his workshop at the 2105 Comics & Medicine conference, doctor and New Yorker staff cartoonist Ben Schwartz tracks the history of doctors, medicine, and health as reflected in the single-panel gag cartoons of the New Yorker Magazine. He also shares reflections from a few fellow New Yorker cartoonists on medicine in comics, and tips for making a gag comic of your own.
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Joshua D Feder MD says
Jan. 14, 2016 at 1:24 pmSo great – an entertaining way to think about the changes in medicine and it’s relation to society, with insight into the guts of how cartoons illuminate these issues.