‘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…
***IMPORTANT NOTE***
This Week in Graphic Medicine will be on hiatus after this post until after the Comics and Medicine Conference! I have been behind on these all summer and with two upcoming conferences and looming deadlines, there is just no way around this break – the first long one in the two years since starting these. I will be back after the conference and I promise to play catch-up as best as possible! (I am brainstorming ways to do so in smaller chunks – we’ll see how it goes.)
I will still be reachable on Twitter, by email, and I hope to see all of you in Vermont!
Matthew’s Pick of the Week…
Since I didn’t manage to keep up with SDCC on social media much this year, I thought this week I just had to highlight Brian Fies blog post capturing his trip there this year – at which he was awarded an Inkpot!
You may also want to check out the upcoming inaugural Comic Studies Society conference! Some coverage over at the Illinois iSchool, where the conference is being hosted. You can also head over to the Mind the Gaps! conference page on Facebook where you’ll find preliminary schedules and more. Note there’s a session on graphic medicine (you’ll find me there)!
And, as you’ll see below, there are a BUNCH of comics this edition. You should read them all of course, but if you are short on time, scroll straight to Nathan Gray’s Cruel Carousel. It is timely, powerful, and something I think we’ll be sharing for years to come.
Articles & More…
Event: Graphic Medicine Exhibit and Events at UMass Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library
Event: Heroes of Health comic book | MRC LMS exhibit at Science Museum Lates
Webcomic: Did I Mention My Friend, Jerie?
Webcomic: Why I Protected My Abuser in My #MeToo Story via @TheNib
Webcomic: A Brief History of Folsom Prison via @TheNib
Webcomic: Powerlifting Doesn’t Care What I Look Like via @TheNib
Webcomic: Why We Don’t Use Chemical Weapons via @TheNib
Webcomic: “Crazy Cat People,” Explained via @TheNib
Webcomic: Do Religious People Really Have a Problem with Evolution?
Webcomic: The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons I Run Long Distances via @Oatmeal
Webcomic: Mental via @Lunarbaboon
Webcomic (Scholarly): Shotgun Metagenomic Detection of Pathogens: a Micro-Comic Strip.
Webcomic (Scholarly): Cruel Carousel: The Grim Grind of “Compassionate” Dialysis via @NathanAGray
Scholarly: A proposal for teaching bioethics in high schools using appropriate visual education tools
Scholarly: Use of a Comic Book to Assist Pharmacy Student Learning of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Scholarly: Reading presence and absence in Fax from Sarajevo’s rape narrative
Podcast: July Podcast: Graphic Medicine at the American Library Association
Interview: Meet CancerOwl and the artist that created him: Matthew Paul Mewhorter.
Interview: Comics and Medicine: Interview with Ellen Forney, Part 2
Interview: ‘100 Demon Dialogues’ Creator on Creativity, Imposter Syndrome and the Need For Empathy
Interview: Lucy Bellwood Knows Your Demons Better Than You Do
Interview: Capturing Dementia Care Stories Through an Unexpected Medium with Dr Simon Grennan, Parables of Care
Interview (Profile): A New Direction for Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Book Review: Graphic Reproduction: A Comics Anthology via @GraphicPolicy
Book Review: The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime the Poetry
Book Review: The Graphic Novel That Captures the Anxieties of Being Undocumented
Book Review: Billy, You, & Me
Book Review: Hey, Kiddo
Library: New Collection at Hirsh Health Sciences Library
Library: MLA ’18 Book List via @angspenc
Blog: Anatomy of Depression Rough Cut 2
Blog: Dear Writing the Unthinkable, Class of 2018 via @NearSitedMonkey (Lynda Barry)
Blog: My Graphic Medicine Origin Story via @ajaggers324
Facebook: Keep an eye out for more on Graphic Medicine at ReImagine in October!
Cartoonists Who Draw in Order to Be Heard
Can comics help us heal? Graphic medicine exhibit comes to UMass Med in the fall.
How artists are using their work to talk about mental illness on social media
“Dr.” Fate (this is a joke but I thought it too hilarious to not include)
DC’s Tom King reveals details on upcoming ‘Heroes in Crisis’; focuses on mental health
Mandi and her Mobile: Beano launches new comic strip to support childrens’ mental health
Heroes in Crisis will set a mass shooting inside the DCU’s safest place
Months After His Own Near-Death, Brian Bendis Knows What Hurts Superman
35 Fantastic Lesbian Comic Books and Graphic Memoirs
Man Booker prize 2018 longlist includes graphic novel for the first time
Fuck You, Death: Thoughts on Finishing My Friend’s Last Book
Mandi and her Mobile: Beano launches new comic strip to support childrens’ mental health
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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