‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Articles are typically presented without commentary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado…
This Week in Graphic Medicine – A Look Inside…
Last week when I announced the move of this blog series to the Graphic Medicine site (ICYMI), I promised to give some insight into how this post comes to be. I came to graphic medicine by accident in grad school when I was supposed to be finding background on radiological imaging. Now here we are a few years later and I still reflect on that story for one major reason: entry into the field is often random or by accident because the information is hard to find. This is less the case now than it used to be as ‘graphic medicine’ becomes more ingrained into the language of comics, but you still often must search far and wide for links like those below. Enter ‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’.
Each week I populate this post in a variety of ways. First, as things come across my desk. I spend a great deal of time on social media and as time goes on, more-and-more folks send me links that might be relevant to the field. Twitter, as you can see given that tweets have their own section, forms the backbone of finding news on graphic medicine. Some of the most insightful ideas from the field I’ve seen come from twitter conversations and I want to make sure they are persevered somehow. You can get a sense of who I follow each week to see these insights from this list. I also encourage folks to tag things #GraphicMedicine as much as possible – it ensures visibility.
I have also set up alerts for key terms in the field through Google and PubMed. This helps streamline the process for finding articles, scholarly or not. These are not foolproof however, as much of the indexing for the field is poor, so I also do manual searches as a final check for the post in both Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. I make my best effort to not share the same articles/information more than once, except in cases of Calls for Papers and Crowdfunding opportunities that I’m particularly excited about.
All of this said, I am absolutely certain that I miss things each week. So I always ask that if you know something I did miss, pass it along so I can make sure it gets included! As a reminder, these posts will be cross-posted on both Graphic Medicine and The Graphic Librarian throughout October – in November, they will be exclusively on GM.
Articles & More…
Kickstarter: How Not To Kill Yourself
CFP: CFP: Comics and Critical Librarianship for Academic Libraries
CFC: CORPUS: A Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments
Event: Emil Ferris at the University of Washington
Event: 27th Annual Stanley P. Stone Distinguished Lecture Series Speaker: Artist Lynda Barry [PDF]
Event: MEDstudio@JEFF Spotlights Hunger in Philadelphia through Graphic Medicine Chalkboard Mural
Event (Scholarly): Oakley Memorial Lecture in Medicine and the Arts
Event (Scholarly): “Drawing as a Mode of Caring: Epigenetic Landscapes and Graphic Medicine” (Lecture, Leeds, 12 October 2017)
Scholarly: The visual framing of graphics when used in preventative health digital news packages: exploring the use of a narrative structure as the message infrastructure via @Visual_Linguist
Video: Holy Graphic Medicine, Batman!
Scholarly: Every Little Bit
Scholarly (Law): Using Comics to Communicate Legal Contract Cancellation
Book List: Graphic Medicine in the “Graphic Novels Core Collection”
Blog: The Facts of Life: playlist to the graphic novel via @Paula_JKnight
Webcomic: Medicine as Foreign Language…
Webcomic: It’s All for the Breast via @TheNib
Webcomic: How Do You Adopt an Embryo? via @TheNib
Webcomic: A diary of heart valve surgery [it’s unclear if this is new or old. PLEASE date your work!]
Comic: Freedom City Comics (You can find physical copies of this throughout the UK)
Comic: Parables of Care – a free comic about dementia that will touch your heart
Comic: Parables of Care is Here!
Comic: Parables of Care: A Comic About Dementia Care, Available for Free
Storify: Responses to Parables of Care
Podcast: Episode 13- Paula Knight plus Jonathan Edwards & The Felt Mistress via @ComicArtFestPod
Facebook: Puerto Rico Donation Comic
Library: The Doctor Will Draw You Now: Comics and Medicine via @SMLibrary_TJU
Interview: Kendal Calling: An Interview with comics creator and author Paula Knight
The Best Comics & Graphic Novels of October 2017
The Importance of Storytelling in Medicine
5 Graphic Novels That Are Better than Therapy
Note: While this article has great recommendations, I want to be clear that I DO NOT endorse this headline. Meant more tongue-in-cheek than anything, it is still dangerous.
S.M.A.S.H. LSCC COMIC CON / 2017 / Pitches
Three Wordless Graphic Novels You Have to “Read”
Why Lowe’s uses comic books to guide innovation
Not healthcare but might give insight into how to convince a hospital to look into them.
2018 applications for the Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries now being accepted
Comics Scholarship Finds Its Voice With ‘INKS’ and ‘Drawing the Line’
A womb of their own – a new film about masculine-identified pregnant people
Tweets…
@ComicNurse, @librarylandia and I were actually talking about how much we both love your work and @GraphicMedicine today!
— Sayantani DasGupta (@Sayantani16) September 30, 2017
So many great artists involved in the project! Honour to work with you! #TheVaccinationPicture. @shoffmania #UAlberta pic.twitter.com/OtGrSdPbvx
— Timothy Caulfield (@CaulfieldTim) September 29, 2017
The Facts of Life/ music guide to the graphic novel! @GraphicMedicine @Paula_JKnight https://t.co/viGKLTPDzA
— ComicNurse (@ComicNurse) September 30, 2017
Intro: Matthew Noe & This Week in Graphic Medicine | Graphic Medicine https://t.co/rj7VOTB1n8 pic.twitter.com/sMu2WYc9LL
— INKS Comics Journal (@INKS_ComicsJrnl) October 1, 2017
Febrile seizures! #graphicmedicine #meded #pediatrics pic.twitter.com/ToqWU0zP41
— Sukriti (@dorsalganglia) October 1, 2017
If you haven’t picked this up yet, now seems like as good a time as any! #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/mjRlJLURuY
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 1, 2017
Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt features a squad of Zeon pilots who all have one or more prosthetic limbs. #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/jTyrbvD4IZ
— BotTOMless Helluck (@LiberryTom) October 2, 2017
Tal día como hoy, hace 5 años, publiqué la 2da entrega de esta entrada:https://t.co/rtSKbGBsZG#MedicinaGráfica#MedEd#GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/F8FPP3FMoJ
— Blanca Mayor Serrano (@mayorserrano) October 2, 2017
New comic about doctors! https://t.co/dHCaepJEW6 pic.twitter.com/3zYkyZHWF1
— Lunarbaboon (@Lunarbaboon) October 1, 2017
@NoetheMatt Found perfect session at Maine Library Association conference to share @nnlmner #graphicmed kit info https://t.co/M0EczNeJzJ
— Martha Meacham (@MarthaMeacham) October 2, 2017
Pronto, en #eclinica2017 @congresosCyS , @mlalanda impartirá un taller sobre el uso del cómic en comunicación para la salud#MedicinaGráfica pic.twitter.com/Ag9N9HMPkE
— medicina-grafica (@GraficaMedicina) October 2, 2017
How we wake up in 2017… pic.twitter.com/tHKsvD6jhE
— Dan Meth (@danmeth) October 2, 2017
Trying to process how I’ve felt this morning… pic.twitter.com/GHnPK0Xk0T
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 2, 2017
#Comics are the best way to teach #science. #MarisWicks author of #HumanBodyTheater #AnatomyComic interview https://t.co/mTDIDla6Rk #scicomm pic.twitter.com/exM4h266Ai
— Init4Health (@Init4Health) October 2, 2017
Pediatrics stroke part 1! #graphicmedicine #MedEd #pediatrics pic.twitter.com/N4ocyfU4BV
— Sukriti (@dorsalganglia) October 2, 2017
Facts. Another installment from our Body Squabbles series by artist @RobBidder pic.twitter.com/6LXTNkPnaC
— Wellcome Collection (@ExploreWellcome) October 2, 2017
So when are we going to get the #EpicMan comic book collection? #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/WFgeas3EF7
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 2, 2017
Only two days til our first ever #GraphicMedicine meetup! Details here! Cc @JennyBlenk @michaelsabine https://t.co/sdLErT20DW
— BookswithPictures? (@bookswpictures) October 2, 2017
Dopamine! #graphicmedicine #meded #pediatrics pic.twitter.com/NCoaAG9c2T
— Sukriti (@dorsalganglia) October 3, 2017
Reasons I wish I lived closer to @Comicazi #37: awesome book club picks. #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/1LYL0ca42n
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 3, 2017
My ILL came in and now I’m frustrated. Nothing about this is comics or even comic-adjacent. Yet the authors tagged it w/ #GraphicMedicine… https://t.co/WKro6ZDixk
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 3, 2017
That’d be my guess. And there are some strictly speaking non-comics that can fit but this stretches too far (IMO).
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 3, 2017
https://t.co/aKim0UuT1e … @JeffersonUniv @muralarts @DesignPhilly @ArtsBusinessPHL @nytimesarts @GraphicMedicine @cantabusa @Philabundance pic.twitter.com/p8MdImaMHX
— Peter Lloyd Jones (@MEDstudioJEFF) October 3, 2017
Come by Books w/Pictures tomorrow for a Graphic Medicine meet-up! @JennyBlenk & I’ll be talking about our work & we’ll all do some drawing! https://t.co/1FuUyBLD5M
— Spiced Apple Spider (@michaelsabine) October 3, 2017
Hello Jordan, So sorry for delay. I’m a bad twitter-nista. How about this? pic.twitter.com/6SBcJ7DLBQ
— Aneurin Wright (@welsheldorado) October 3, 2017
Glad you liked. One other that might help too. It’s a little more abstract (alveoli as customs agents) pic.twitter.com/gUtZtQEIry
— Aneurin Wright (@welsheldorado) October 3, 2017
@GraphicMedicine in the “Graphic Novels Core Collection” – …settles in with this list, my @WoodridgePL ca… https://t.co/qMTPQPoCAP
— 710.9 – Melissa (@710dot9) October 3, 2017
Based on the description, this is going to be at minimum #GraphicMedicine adjacent. (“…meditation on obsession, mental illness and faith”) https://t.co/DBHD7yGTV4
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 3, 2017
My #sketchnotes from awesome program this weekend. Maybe this is also @GraphicMedicine for counselors? pic.twitter.com/7VMDlT2D34
— Devlyn McCreight (@DrDevlyn) October 3, 2017
We got our copies of @DELTAHEAD_‘s effing beautiful #MISHADRA in just in time for our #GraphicMedicine event this evening! ?? pic.twitter.com/MG6B4oOFeo
— BatswithPunctures? (@bookswpictures) October 4, 2017
PDX folks, come by @bookswpictures tonight from 6:30-8:30 to hear me, @michaelsabine , and other @GraphicMedicine folks share our projects!
— Jenny Blenk (@JennyBlenk) October 4, 2017
We’re always looking for visual submissions that explore #ethics & #healthcare! Learn more here #graphicmedicine https://t.co/Rbzm6a7MfE
— Journal of Ethics (@JournalofEthics) October 4, 2017
We’re bringing back collabn w @mike_natter tomorrow night at launch of #GraphicMedicine program 2 end hunger @JeffersonUniv @MarkTykocinski https://t.co/K9FLC2QeFE
— Peter Lloyd Jones (@MEDstudioJEFF) October 4, 2017
A child with polio marches across Japan to raise awareness in the series Black Jack. #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/aNFhQeEiJZ
— BotTOMless Helluck (@LiberryTom) October 5, 2017
Branding and public perception mean you have to be sick “correctly” to inspire others. #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/3DAEua98Xm
— BotTOMless Helluck (@LiberryTom) October 5, 2017
And voila, a beautiful twist. There are other twists & turns you’ll have to see for yourself. Black Jack rules! #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/pjwZbrByRs
— BotTOMless Helluck (@LiberryTom) October 5, 2017
So excited for the event to start! @bookswpictures @michaelsabine @GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/MmsgBc8aCV
— Jenny Blenk (@JennyBlenk) October 5, 2017
Graphic Medicine PDX meetup happening now! @JennyBlenk @michaelsabine @ohyesverynice pic.twitter.com/9j4B04CmIE
— BatswithPunctures? (@bookswpictures) October 5, 2017
A wonderful reading from @JennyBlenk – thank you @bookswpictures for hosting this lovely Portland #GraphicMedicine meetup! pic.twitter.com/XVTIW7g1AL
— Spiced Apple Spider (@michaelsabine) October 5, 2017
And our #GraphicMedicine collection is starting to arrive too. Really looking forward to exploring the links between comics and health pic.twitter.com/m1m0im32TX
— Madeleine Still (@librarymade) October 5, 2017
darryl.cunningham interviewed by streakofpith for the launch of his latest book, Graphic… https://t.co/CN1VkJyqe3
— Graphic Medicine (@GraphicMedicine) October 5, 2017
Come to the @medstudioatjeff Graphic Medicine kickoff tonight. @NoetheMatt will be on the panel! https://t.co/RdczkqlPVm https://t.co/R5jxcjtmQa
— Scott Mem. Library (@SMLibrary_TJU) October 5, 2017
Dermatomyositis! #graphicmedicine #meded #medicine pic.twitter.com/PfmbTQzW9t
— Sukriti (@dorsalganglia) October 5, 2017
The donated #GraphicMedicine collection at @SMLibrary_TJU! pic.twitter.com/FdRd5tfPFI
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 5, 2017
And @mike_natter on display in the library! #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/kVbY1Mhjyi
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 5, 2017
Tonight! #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/0d8O6WpPrw
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 5, 2017
Argh this is too exciting?! Got my hands on a @WellcomeLibrary card?! Time to look at their #zines & #graphicmedicine collections?!! pic.twitter.com/eg1uSqWUsC
— Rosie Cappuccino (@RosieCappuccino) October 5, 2017
Our very own @NoetheMatt talking graphic medicine, medical humanities, & hunger at Design Philadelphia https://t.co/zRGclhaf6N
— UMMS Library (@UMMSLibrary) October 5, 2017
Can’t wait to get a copy of this at @MassMICE, especially since we’ll be talking #GraphicMedicine! https://t.co/NQYk7OS6j2
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 5, 2017
Brainstorming responses to the timeless “I can’t draw” response to putting #GraphicMedicine into practice. pic.twitter.com/HgjY93NNJm
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 5, 2017
Brainstorming on talking about #GraphicMedicine and came up with… https://t.co/iEU4GQQvvf
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 5, 2017
“The expediency of comics allows us to confront medicine in [interesting ways]” @trudyannewatt @MEDstudioJEFF #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/NDCf6DC51h
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 5, 2017
Graphic Medicine panel discussion starting at @jeffersonuniv with @MEDstudioJEFF …. https://t.co/YvlLdhqxRv pic.twitter.com/ok8eYxmB80
— Alexandra G (@AlexandraGola) October 6, 2017
#SerpentsSecret actually not graphic novel (tho others on panel were) TY so much for the mention! Reading Rx FTW! Stories are good medicine!
— Sayantani DasGupta (@Sayantani16) October 6, 2017
Great discussion bridging hunger and activism, mural and fine arts, and graphic medicine! So much to think about going forward! https://t.co/358nDnThaF
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 6, 2017
A debriefing comic after the graphic medicine panel with @MEDstudioJEFF. Panel 3 is where I think comics hold real opportunity. https://t.co/V63mbSa1CF
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 6, 2017
Good display @ExploreWellcome @blackwellbooks of our #GraphicMedicine books @TheBadDr @Paula_JKnight @cartoonkate @AcmeDarryl in ace company pic.twitter.com/ScPyfSN1ua
— Myriad Editions (@MyriadEditions) October 6, 2017
Taking advantage of the library’s #GraphicMedicine collection, starting with The Bad Doctor ~ pic.twitter.com/y1RVZaVER7
— Tundun F. (@_yomikoreadman) October 6, 2017
Stories about #braininjury and creativity – learn more about this project here…https://t.co/jxCGbvDUEZ#GraphicMedicine #GraphicComics pic.twitter.com/COr6ep7sNk
— Wallis Eates (@WallisEates) October 6, 2017
#Healthcare cutbacks affect us all, #Squirrel!https://t.co/lIm2GCLr9T#webcomic @GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/S7dFikFvs7
— Diary Of A Squirrel (@diarysquirrel) October 6, 2017
Deciding to help end hunger was the easy part. Next up, hunger as scholarly inquiry and #GraphicMedicine. MarkTykocinski @JeffersonUniv @ pic.twitter.com/2d7QppJ627
— Peter Lloyd Jones (@MEDstudioJEFF) October 6, 2017
Been thinking about this idea a great deal of late… (@GraphicMedicine Manifesto) pic.twitter.com/uFLqV2qqco
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 6, 2017
Been thinking about this idea a great deal of late… (@GraphicMedicine Manifesto) pic.twitter.com/uFLqV2qqco
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 6, 2017
in her interview with @AcmeDarryl , @streakofpith mentioned the quality of the #GraphicScience introduction. Agree. Erudite and humane. pic.twitter.com/Ox549Ij0nu
— Graphic Medicine (@GraphicMedicine) October 6, 2017
Everyone takes a different approach… @MEDstudioJEFF @trudyannewatt pic.twitter.com/iWFJyzBeg6
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 6, 2017
#GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/ziESR3mU5L
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 6, 2017
#GraphicMedicine is coming to @MassMICE! Featuring @metrokitty, @Kriota, @DELTAHEAD_, and myself. Will be recorded thanks to @nnlmner! pic.twitter.com/fCmMyzoevk
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 6, 2017
Annals Graphic Medicine: A Day in the Life of Someone Living w DM. So educational & well made. https://t.co/pN4NQZWpmT via @YouTube
— Reza Hosseini (@rezopedia) October 7, 2017
@GraphicMedicine workshop @radboudumc Nijmegen; draw your ideal informal care. PhDproject Informal care in palliative phase #science #ethics pic.twitter.com/qx8LnPdA6N
— TGE (@TGE_GO) October 7, 2017
You want to do this! Paula’s book is must-own #graphicmedicine. https://t.co/t4Oxx7SamX https://t.co/4tiZtOZ1cM
— Broken Frontier (@brokenfrontier) October 7, 2017
I’ve given two @GraphicMedicine #1 newspapers to Tara @Comics_Teesside for their studio/ students. #graphicmedicine #comics
— Paula Knight (@Paula_JKnight) October 7, 2017
. @Comicspedia‘s database is a brilliant resource for floppy comics relevant to #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/LP13pESOnS
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 7, 2017
Be happy. pic.twitter.com/59MdP5guM5
— banksy (@thereaIbanksy) October 7, 2017
Did you catch this from @brokenfrontier last week? #braininjury https://t.co/QkxlNezpSR pic.twitter.com/6LSGpkGjtI
— Wallis Eates (@WallisEates) October 5, 2017
I have some comics in the accompanying exhibition at SICK! (not going to Berlin, unfortunately). Pls take pics and send me!? https://t.co/rrj76DIc7t
— Paula Knight (@Paula_JKnight) October 2, 2017
Look who’s hanging out with us at @zinescomics ! @ZenBucko with her new book S I D. pic.twitter.com/ttTyMxDa5p
— Ghoul Comics (@Good_Comics) October 7, 2017
I reviewed an earlier edn of this fine book back in 2013 https://t.co/8BWHU4HOYy
LOOK STRAIGHT AHEAD GN (OCT171765) https://t.co/lSm5l5m0Wp pic.twitter.com/jvRiioY6Pw
— Tom Murphy (@TomMurphyLdn) October 5, 2017
Read @Paula_JKnight ‘s beautiful and sophisticated graphic pathography ‘The Facts of Life’ in 1 go: truly captivating! thnx @MyriadEditions pic.twitter.com/ZVm2uxbdxc
— Maria Vaccarella (@drmarvac) October 5, 2017
#BCZF2017 Spotlight: Paula Knight @Paula_JKnight will be signing copies of her new book The Facts of Life on Sathttps://t.co/i7FuxykNFO pic.twitter.com/jBl3qcXGSf
— BCZF (@zinescomics) October 3, 2017
Dorothy Hodgkin – so far the only British woman to win a scientific Nobel prize: https://t.co/evXPZNbmzr
— ootastic (@ootastic) October 4, 2017
Six personal health zines that might change your life: https://t.co/Dp8gOtvbcU
— Nicola C.✨ (@nicololosaurus) August 7, 2017
Inside The Senses #neuroscience #comics #graphicscience #cartoonscience #newbook #senses https://t.co/UVkDm1aXd9
— Matteo Farinella (@matteofarinella) October 6, 2017
Getting our chalkboard drawing on (thanks to Lyn Godley for the photo)! @MEDstudioJEFF pic.twitter.com/231ksD5MT4
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) October 7, 2017
Day 1 of #inktober: Human heart. pic.twitter.com/yrmRdHaocn
— عَيْن (@_Aisha15) October 1, 2017
Some great stuff this week! Did I miss something? Let me know in the comments below or tweet @NoetheMatt! Until next time…
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