This Week in Graphic Medicine (12/7/18)

‘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…

Matthew’s Pick of the Week…

I’m cheating again this week because of yet ANOTHER conference full of graphic medicine. This looks to be the last one for a while (I think)…

Pick 1: The comic What Doctors Know About CPR by Nathan Gray has been making the rounds all week, to the point that I almost didn’t pick it because it’s already known… but it is just too powerful to NOT highlight further. If you only have time to read one of the links here this week, make it this comic. There’s been a lot of heartfelt response to this one on social media, if you’re so inclined to go looking.

Pick 2: The Curating Health: Graphic Medicine and Visual Representations of Illness conference took place during this week! I know I was experiencing some serious FOMO throughout the event. Catch up with all the goings on with the hashtag #CuratingHealth! Please note that I didn’t include these tweets in the feed below, as is my usual approach to larger conferences – it would overwhelm everything else (and me)!

Articles & More…

News: Graphic Medicine now has a Reddit Community! Be sure to send any/all blame to @adlewis 😉

CFP: Open Topic Comics Panel at American Literature Association 2019

Kickstarter: Radify

Webcomic: When the Menopause Carnival Comes to Town

Webcomic: Sylvia Plath’s Last Plan via @SummerPierre (this one is an absolute stretch for inclusion, but I had to; the justification is suicide)

Webcomics: These Comics Shed Light On The ‘Scary Thoughts’ That Can Come With Motherhood

Webcomic: Pinan [CW: rape, PTSD]

Webcomic: Justice Through Science: The Life of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld via @TheNib

Webcomic: What To Do With My Body When I Die* via @TheNib

Webcomic (Scholarly): Annals Graphic Medicine – Sign Out

The following 4 webcomics are from the Comics 4 Health Coverage program: