This Week in Graphic Medicine (7/20/18)

‘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…

This week, the picks were really quite simple make: go back The Nib Magazine on Kickstarter! As regular readers of this blog know, The Nib features nearly every single week (this one being no exception) – be it a comic directly about the experience of medicine or be it about the social, cultural, or political parts of life that directly or indirectly play a role in the experience of medicine. The platform for creators to share their experiences and the experiences of those they work with is invaluable, particularly as these are usually stories that get missed by more traditional publishing. So you know I’m putting my money where my mouth is, you should know: I am backer #8. Go do it!

Also, HUGE news from Ellen Forney: The University of Washington Health Sciences Common Book for 2018-19 is Marbles!

Articles & More…

Conference: Comics and Medicine Conference Marketplace Table Sign-Up

Call-for-Papers: CFP – Special Collection: Creating Comics, Creative Comics

Kickstarter: Invisible Illness: Anxiety

Webcomic: In Search of Water-Boiled Fish via @okchickadee [This was damn near my pick of the week because of how wonderfully orchestrated this comic is, even if it is only “GM adjacent”. Seriously, read it.]

Webcomic: Feminists Should Support Decriminalizing Sex Work. Here’s Why. via @TheNib

Webcomic: Vulvovaginal Anatomy (NSFW)

Webcomic: Your Memory is Worse Than You Think via @TheNib

Webcomic: Comic 25 – Me Too! via @richstarkmd

Webcomic: PD Pundit: The Best Exercise for Parkinson’s via @dunlapshohl

Webcomic: A New Mother’s Dilemma: Does Asking Your Doctor for Help Make It Better or Worse? via @MuthaMagazine

Webcomic: Birth/Rebirth: Comics via @MuthaMagazine

Webcomic: Our Sacred Little World of Dying

This publisher – spiral bound – on Medium seems to publish a great deal of graphic medicine, but I haven’t been doing great at keeping up with them since Medium has turned into yet another place with subscription requirements.

Webcomic: Pocket Doodles: My First Year as a Physician, Installation #1 via @inHouseMag

Webcomic: My First Year Sober (may have been posted here before, but I can’t be sure)

Comic: “I Put the Can in Cancer: A Journey Through Pictures” by Christian “Patch” Patchell

Scholarly: Reaching Urban Female Adolescents at Key Points of Sexual and Reproductive Health Transitions: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study from Kenya.

Scholarly: Comic Arts Conference (SDCC) Poster Session

Scholarly: Comics as a Medium for Parent Health Education: Improving Understanding of Normal 9-Month-Old Developmental Milestones

Book Review: Graphic manual offers illustrated advice on mood disorders

Book Review: Neurocomic via @GraficaMedicina

Book Review: Escaping Wars and Waves

Interview: Bipolar Survival Guide: Interview With Ellen Forney, Part 1

Interview: In ‘Nonpartum,’ Local Comics Artist Tackles Motherhood And More

Interview: Ellen Forney, Megan Kelso and Raina Telgemeier on Process