‘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…
This week I want to draw your attention to a couple of comics published in The Nib that you might not normally consider when thinking about graphic medicine. The first, titled It’s Time to Rethink How Recycling is Done is a depressing look by cartoonist Katie Wheeler at how our efforts at recycling may not be as helpful as we’ve been led to believe all these years. The second, Long Live the Monarch by author/illustrator Maia Kobabe, lets us know that, yes, actually, we ARE seeing fewer butterflies – and it is probably out fault for mucking around with the environment so much.
Both of these comics, to my mind, offer opportunities to explore how the environment and politics of our world impact healthcare – areas often discussed as social determinants of health. While neither of these comics explicitly touch on the health impacts of either recycling (or not) or the disappearance of species (and what causes that), they offer an opportunity for a conversation. A conversation that we ALL need to be having because – as David Wallace-Wells horrifying book, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming convincingly argues – climate change, the biggest of environmental impacts, is already having direct health impacts (including, perhaps, the sparking of refugee crisis’) and it is only going to get worse.
UPDATE! Naturally I didn’t see this great collaborative comic by Mita Mahato and Meredith Li-Vollmer until after writing up the above pick section, so I apologize for it not being part of my longer chat. But you need to see it!
Conference News
Queerying Graphic Medicine – Paradigms, Power and Practices – 11-13 July 2019 is getting closer! As promised in an email last week to folks proposing presentations, you should be seeing news of your proposal’s status either already or in the coming days. Exciting!
Even more exciting perhaps is that I am happy to share that registration for the conference is now open! You can find more information and register at this link! Pricing below:
Prices:
Early Bird Registration – £100 (available until 1st June 2019)
Full Price Registration – £125 (from 2nd June 2019)
Student Registration – £60
For further information please visit the website: https://www.graphicmedicine.org/comics-and-medicine-conferences/brighton-2019
Special Note…
There are two great conferences happening with focuses relevant to graphic medicine right now – I can’t possibility capture everything coming out of them here. So to that I end, I encourage you to go follow along on your own on Twitter/Instagram!
Use #PPPatienthood to follow the Performing and Picturing Patienthood event and use #ICAF2019 for the International Comics Arts Festival!
But seriously, please do follow along! I can’t accurately include these in TWIGM and there’s so much good! https://t.co/yNeZ0OHuPc
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) April 5, 2019
Articles & More…
CFP: Special Issue “Photo-Literary Disorders: Literature, Photography and Illness”
Event: Sixth ‘Cripping’ the Comic Con Symposium Announced
Event: Canadian Association for Health Humanities Conference (Creating Space IX)
Event: Queers & Comics Conference 2019
Kickstarter: Hardcore Anxiety: A Graphic Guide to Punk and Mental Health
Kickstarter: Every Day: An Anti-Gun Violence Comics Anthology
Webcomic: Taking Shape
Webcomic: The Latent Phase
Webcomic: Privacy Pains via @Doc_Related
Webcomic: “Medication”
Webcomic: What was I expecting? via @GraceFarris
Webcomic: Trump’s Awesome New Health Care Plan via @TheNib
Webcomic: Body Image Blues By Bingo
Webcomic: Viagens na tuberculose: o boicote de uma “parede” para derrubar a doença
Webcomic (Scholarly): Annals Graphic Medicine – Dr. Mom: Mischief Levels
Comic: Den-Tor! The Barbarian Hygienist!
Scholarly: Revisiting an old strategy: cartoons in medical education
Scholarly: Information Labour and Shame in Farmer and Chevli’s Abortion Eve
Book Review: Graphic Novels That Will Diagnose Your Disease
Book Review: ‘Nobody’s Fool,’ the Story Behind Zippy the Pinhead
Book Review: ZITA CABEZA DE SEDA. PEQUEÑO CORAZON FRÁGIL
Book Review: MANICOMIO
Book Review: Book review: The Lady Doctor
Book Review: Kirkus review, Sincerely, Harriet
Blog: A new dawn? via @MrPickers
Blog: A numbers game. via @MrPickers
Blog: Shades of Graze via @ootastic
Blog: “Normal for NICU” – reflections on attending the Neonatal Society Spring Meeting
Interview: Are We Long-Form Yet?: A Chat with Bill Griffith
Interview: Interview: Artist with Anxiety Illustrates Mental Health Tips She Learns in Therapy
Interview: Science Cartoonist Studies Science of Science Cartoons
Interview: Interview with Kathryn from ‘My Illustrated Mind’
Interview: An Interview with the creators of Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women
Interview: Beyond ‘Reefer Madness’: Box Brown’s Graphic History Tells Story Of A Maligned Plant
Interview (Radio): After Losing Home in Northern California Wildfires, Cartoonist Brian Fies Shares His ‘Fire Story’
Twitter: Matthew livetweets MK Czerwiec’s keynote at #IHHC19
Podcast: Comic Book Buds Issue #9: Graphic Medicine and Disability in Comics
Video: A. David Lewis is kindly making much of his new course on graphic medicine publicly available. This is Graphic Medicine, Lecture 4.
Stories Not Symptoms: Speaker and Exhibit Highlight Comics as Educational Healing Tools
Vascular Surgeon Draws on the Art of Surgery in His Own Way
Comics offer radical opportunity to blend scholarship and art
Immune system, vaccines, and… Comics?
“Living Documents”: Drawing a 3-Panel Comic from Primary Sources
Bernardo Fernández ‘Bef’: “Los cómics son una herramienta muy poderosa de comunicación”
Understanding Hemophilia for All Ages
Vortrag: Graphic medicine – können Comics heilen?
How Illness Affects Art: An Artist Discusses Suffering and Its Complex Relationship With Creating
Calgary writer Teresa Wong portrays postpartum fog in graphic novel ‘Dear Scarlet’
The Best Cartoonist You’ve Never Read Is Eight Different People via @abrahamjoseph
Tweets…
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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