This Week in Graphic Medicine (4/19 - 4/26/19)

‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles 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’s picks include big news about the Brighton Conference: Brighton keynote speaker announcement: Dr. Meg-John Barker! The conference is really shaping up to be an amazing event and I’m looking forward to seeing as many of you there as possible! If you have any questions about this year’s conference, don’t hesitate to ask us.

In addition, I want to call your attention to a recently completed comics project – There’s No Bus Map for Dementia – that was funded by Arts Council England and completed by the dream team of Sarah McNicol and Cathy Leamy. You can view the comic online, via PDF, and soon to be in print. If you’re in the Manchester area, consider joining them for the launch of the comic!

And a quick note: no tweets for this period. I am giving a great deal of thought to no longer collecting them as typical for these posts – as you may have seen me asking about how important that aspect of these posts are for folks on Twitter – for a couple of reasons. One major one being the amount of time it takes in comparison to my dwindling freedom to make these each week. Another is that so long as things are tagged with #GraphicMedicine, they are quite easily searchable already – and I’m not convinced the Wakelet format makes finding the one’s you want any easier. If you have strong feelings about this one way or another, please, please let me know.

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

Articles & More…

Event: Antimicrobial Avengers

Event: Aliceheimer’s: Comics, Medicine, and Healing

Event: Women in Medicine: Empowered and Enpanelled

Event: Georgia Webber at Brock U

Program: Transform Your Scholarly Publication Into a Comic or Illustration

CFP: WMU Medical Humanities Conference

Call for Comics: Graphic Truths: The Making (and Unmaking) of a Doctor

Contest: 2019 Conley Art of Medicine Contest

Comic: Tout va bien

Comic: A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities

Book: Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability

You should also take a look at the PSU Press Graphic Medicine Series page – there are a TON of great upcoming titles!

Webcomic: My Body is a Bad Robot: A Comic About Getting Sober

Webcomic: Overcaffeinated Medic: A Comic on Working Motherhood

Webcomic: I’m Bad at Being on My Period

Webcomic: A Student’s Journey in Comics, Decision Making

Webcomic: Down the Middle

Webcomic: The Rise and Fall of the Nuclear Family

Webcomic: Indonesia is Asking Itself Some Big Questions

Webcomic: Note Bloat

Webcomic: Boobs Aren’t Binary

Webcomic: Measles Are Back

Webcomic: If You’ve Ever Had a ‘Bad’ Therapist, This Comic Is For You

Webcomic: I used to hide my dad’s addiction. Now I can talk about it, but I’m still learning how to cope.

Webcomic (Scholarly): Annals Graphic Medicine – Progress Notes: House of Cards

Scholarly: Graphic Methods in Social Research seminar

Scholarly: HIV/AIDS information promotion at the library: creative campaigns for young adults

Scholarly: BMJ Research Roundup features Comic for consent article (with important feedback)

Scholarly (Download Link): Diagnosis Deafness in Cancer Comics (Word Doc)

Scholarly (Digital Exhibit): Speaking w/o Limit – Digital Exhibit from Leah Misemer’s Webcomics, Print, and Digital Culture course

Book Review: UNA HERIDA EN EL CORAZÓN

Book Review: A Fire Story

Book Review: Heroes in Crisis #8: Crimes Born in Pain

Book Review: 5 Questions About: Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371

Interview: Interview with YA Graphic Novel Winner Jarrett Krosoczka

Interview: “Oh, Yeah, This Is Obsession”: An Interview with Box Brown

Interview: Comic Book Catharsis: A Q&A With Brian Fies on His Powerful Graphic Novel About California Wildfires

Podcast (Video): New Podcast Episode: Rachel Lindsay on Rx

Library: New graphic medicine collection at the Kellogg

Library: Resource Round-Up: New England Graphic Medicine ComicCon

Library: NNLM New England Region Hosts the New England Graphic Medicine ComicCon & Workshop

Blog: Process Piece via @MrPickers

Blog: Time-shifting via @MrPickers

Blog: Redefining the Field: A Critical Review of the 2019 International Health Humanities Consortium via @Margolafshani

Blog: ACP Meeting Highlights the Value of Graphic Medicine

Video: A. David Lewis is kindly making much of his new course on graphic medicine publicly available. This is Graphic Medicine, Lecture 5, the final of the semester.

Twitter: Interested thread on an ADL assignment

Pinterest: Web comics and mental health

Illustrating the Patient Experience: a Graphic Artist’s Cancer Narrative

William J. Doan, professor of theatre, named 2019-20 Penn State Laureate

First-Person Graphic Memoirs Bring Events to Life for Students

First-Person Graphic Memoirs: 17 Recommended Titles

Graphic book captures caring for loved one in dying days

“Cripping” the Comic Con Opens Discussion on Disabilities in Comics

Comics for all: Syracuse University hosts its six annual ‘Cripping’ the Comic Con Symposium

“You’re Just Kooky”: Women Who Were Diagnosed With Autism Later In Life

Comic-Style Information Helpful For Patients Scheduled to Undergo Cardiac Catheterization

Comic-style brochure may help surgical patients understand their procedure