This Week in Graphic Medicine (10/19/18)

‘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…

Special Notes…

Thank you to Alice Jaggers for running the show the past couple of weeks! I had a good vacation – a family wedding and visit – and am feeling fairly rested. More relevant to you all, is that I’m back at This Week. I wanted to make sure to point out that since I didn’t do these the past couple of weeks, there is a high chance of duplication here to the past couple of weeks. I will try to avoid it but can’t be certain.

If you are another graphic medicine librarian and would like to talk about guest curating This Week in Graphic Medicine in the future, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me! You can always find me on Twitter, but also you can email me at: Matthew_Noe@hms.harvard.edu.

I also want to make sure folks know that the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE) is this weekend in Cambridge, MA (Oct 20 – 21)! I will try to track down a bunch of GM relevant stuff while there and will try to tweet about it too. Most directly important though is that a panel titled “Comics and Mental Health” is happening with A. David Lewis moderating a panel with Lucy Bellwood, Kevin Budnik, LB Lee, Rachel Lindsay, and Robyn Smith! Make sure to follow along on Twitter with @MassMICE and #micexpo2018 (I think).

Matthew’s Pick of the Week…

My first week back, I am going to put in what is probably my 80th plug for this comic, but now that it is on bookstore shelves, I want to make sure no one misses it: Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka. You can check out some recent buzz about it, including an interview, below. I’d love to hear what you think of it!

My review: Matthew Noe’s Review on Goodreads

NYT Review: A Graphic Novel Aimed at Young Adults Takes a Personal Look at the Opioid Crisis

NPR Interview: ‘Hey, Kiddo’ Aims To Help Kids With Addicted Parents Feel Less Alone

NPR Interview (Earlier): In ‘Hey, Kiddo,’ Jarrett Krosoczka Sketches Childhood, A Mom’s Addiction

The Beat Interview: A Witness to Addiction, Angst, and Art in JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA’s Intimate Memoir HEY KIDDO

Articles & More…

Kickstarter: Mind Control: A New Era Of Comic

Event (Reminder): Graphic Medicine at ReImagine New York

Event: 2018 Colleges of the Fenway Annual Teaching & Learning Conference (featuring @adlewis on teaching graphic medicine)

Event: Workshop: Graphic Medicine, Reflective Drawing, and Advanced Care Directives

Event: Graphic Medicine: Panel and Exhibition

CFP: Storytelling for Health 2

CFP: Seeing Sounds / Hearing Pictures – A Roundtable on Sound and Comics/Sound in Comics

Degree Opportunity: MA in Medical Humanities and Social Sciences

Webcomic: Some Fatherly Advice via @TheNib

Webcomic: Whose Lives Matter? via @TheNib

Webcomic: Padre for Life via @TheNib

Webcomic: Danger Along the Balkan Route via @TheNib

Webcomic: The Pigeon

Webcomic: Stayin’ Alive: A Heroin Story via @TheNib

Webcomic: What the Fight For 15 Could Get Us via @TheNib

Webcomic (Site): Comics for the Chronically Ill

Webcomic (Site): My OCD Story via @LWBean

Webcomic: What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting to Care for an Elderly Patient

Webcomic: Can Climate Science Be Rendered Conservative-Friendly? via @TheNib

This one is interesting for GM to consider. Climate Change is absolutely a healthcare issue, so there’s that, but there is also a lot to discuss here about telling people things they don’t want to hear and finding ways to get them to listen.

Scholarly: A didactic approach to presenting verbal and visual information to children participating in research protocols: the comic book informed assent.

Scholarly (Webcomic): Let us take care of the patient!

Scholarly (Webcomic): The secrets of keeping fit: exercising and healthy eating.

Scholarly (Webcomic): Of Microscopes and Metaphors: Visual Analogy as a Scientific Tool via @MatteoFarinella

Scholarly: Comics and medical narrative: a visual semiotic dissection of graphic medicine

Scholarly: Graphic medicine: comics as a self care tool for undergraduate students (presented at Midcontinental MLA 2018)

Book Review: Cara o Cruz. Conviviendo con un Trastorno Mental via @GraficaMedicina

Book Review: Behold! Autumn’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Video (Facebook): 2018 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities – Dr. Rita Charon

Library (Event): LibraryCon Live!

Library: Comics and Well-Being (libguide)

Library (Funding Opportunity!): Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries add a third grant starting in 2019