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Home / Blog / This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/29 – 4/5/19)

This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/29 – 4/5/19)

Apr. 5, 2019 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…


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: The Divergent Meanings of “I” for the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: a Micro-Comic Strip

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

Gray’s graphic medicine

Vascular Surgeon Draws on the Art of Surgery in His Own Way

Comics offer radical opportunity to blend scholarship and art

The Week in Books

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”

Can Art Heal Our Healers?

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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