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Home / Latest / This Week in Graphic Medicine (11/30/18)

This Week in Graphic Medicine (11/30/18)

Nov. 30, 2018 by Matthew Noe

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This Week in Graphic Medicine in a Stranger Things Stylized Font
‘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…

Note: There are items dating back to 11/21 here due to the Holiday in the US last week


Matthew’s Pick of the Week…

This week I’m cheating again and having two picks. In my defense though, it is because I had already picked out a comic and then realized (thanks to Ian’s amazing job of RT’ing) that the Medicina Grafica conference was happening this week! So…

Pick 1: This comic from Mazie Lovie, published on The Nib, asks “Who Deserves a Home?” and my answer is: literally everyone. Housing should be considered a human right and homelessness should scarcely exist, yet in our modern world, it is a huge problem – one that in the United States is often used to blame people for their circumstances. This comic does a great job of dispelling some of the myths around home ownership and is particularly powerful at a time when the homeless are being, once again, weaponized to argue against accepting refugees and other immigrants. All of this is relevant to health, but it is particularly important to recognize that homelessness itself is not only a cause of many health problems, an effect of others, but is an impediment to treatment in ways that most practicing healthcare workers have themselves NEVER experienced.

Pick 2: As I do with most conferences, I am not capturing them in the Tweets below because there are simply too many. So, I highly – HIGHLY – encourage you to go read through the #ConMedicinaGráfica feed. The photos on Instagram have been wonderful as well! A huge, heartfelt congratulations to the entire Medicina Grafica team for what looks like an amazing conference!

It looks like you can watch a good deal of the conference on this YouTube live-stream! I’ll update here if something changes with this link.


Articles & More… 

CFP: Comics and Catharsis: Exploring Narratives of Trauma and Memory in the Graphic Novel (DUE 12/1)/18

Kickstarter: Out of the Woods

Kickstarter: ‘Mum’s Jumper’ – A Compelling Picture Book about Grief

Webcomic: How to Make Friends With Your Heart

Webcomic: The Trans Discourse Minefield via @TheNib

Webcomic: Everything Dies via @TheNib

Webcomics: Uberheroes

Webcomic: Travel Anxieties Flow Chart

Webcomic: Alcohol in pregnancy via @Cilein

Webcomic: Give It A Name via @SarahMangle

Webcomics (on Instagram): OneHundredYearOldwisom

Comics Excerpt: Report from a Syrian refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan

Scholarly: The Art and Science of Nursing via @DoanWjd1

Scholarly: The Athletic Body

Scholarly: Discrepant Analysis and Bias: a Micro-Comic Strip.

Scholarly: Medicalization and Demedicalization — A Gravely Disabled Homeless Man with Psychiatric Illness (Not a comic, but relevant to us)

Book Review: CORPUS: A COMIC ANTHOLOGY OF BODILY AILMENTS Offers New & Vulnerable Perspectives on Diverse Illnesses

Book Review: A Fire Story by Brian Fies (STARRED REVIEW!!)

Book Review: Where Else Can They Go? – Reviews of 3 Refugee Comics

Blog: Teaching Public Health with Graphic Medicine via @nnlmner

Blog: From scientists, for scientists, and beyond: a method to develop a comic based on your research

Blog: Shake That Moody (featuring Ellen Forney)

Interview: Roz Chast in Full View (Body Scan Included)

Interview: Smash Pages Q&A: Ali Fitzgerald on ‘Drawn to Berlin’

Interview: “An Incredible Feeling of Purpose”: An Interview with Ellen Forney

Podcast: Mental Health Comics

Video: Frozen2 via @DoanWjd1

Webinar: SEASide Webinar Getting Off the Ground with Graphic Medicine Nov 15 2018

Animation: Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Animation General’ by Sawyer Geffert

Please note that I am making a point to only share Best of Lists that explicitly include titles relevant to graphic medicine. There are hundreds of these every year, so I’ll likely miss plenty. I do not endorse ANY of them – “best” is a difficult term for our field. 

Best of 2018: Publisher’s Weekly Comic Picks

Best of 2018: NYT 100 Notable Books of 2018 [Note that there are only TWO comics selections, and one of them isn’t even a comic but a scholarly work on the matter. That is Why Comics? and is why this link is included here – there’s a lot on graphic medicine in there. But to say I am disappointed in the NYTs for their lack of attention to comics is an understatement.]

Best of 2018: NPR’s Book Concierge 2018 (24 comics!)

Best of 2018: Library Journal

Best of 2018: School Library Journal

Best of 2018: New York Public Library

Library: Nationwide Boost to Graphic Novels and Comics

Library: Graphic Novels & the Humanity of Mental Illness: An Annotated Bibliography

Bibliotherapy: how reading and writing have been healing trauma since World War I

Reading Fiction Makes You a Little Nicer

Looking at Art Could Help Med Students Become Better Doctors

3 on a YA Theme: Must-Read Graphic Memoirs

How Traumatized Children See the World, According to Their Drawings

British Doctors May Soon Prescribe Art, Music, Dance, Singing Lessons

Comics about Depression that are Too Accurate to Ignore (Note: I do NOT approve of this framing of privileging some depictions as more accurate than others.)

This Mom Is A Doctor By Day And Hilarious Cartoonist By Night


Tweets…


Some great stuff this week! Did I miss something? Let me know in the comments below or tweet @NoetheMatt! Until next time…

Categories: This Week in Graphic Medicine Tags: animation, best of 2018, blog, book review, call for papers, comic excerpt, housing, instagram, Interview, Kickstarter, library, medicina graphica, podcast, Scholarly, Twitter, Video, webcomic, webinar

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