‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights news about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary. So without further ado…
Matthew’s Pick of the Week…
The latest from Anita Ravi, MD, exploring homelessness in medicine: Patients Facing Homelessness Need More Than Referrals.
Reminder: TWIGM was on hiatus throughout July and I do not back-log for the posts – thank you for understanding!
Special Note…
As you likely already know, The Nib, one of the most regular outlets for graphic medicine webcomics, is losing their funding as of this week and are switching to an entirely membership model. I encourage you to consider helping keep them running! You can find all the information at: https://membership.thenib.com/.
Articles & More…
Graphic Medicine 2020 is in Toronto!
Event: Graphic Medicine: The Therapeutic Benefits of Art Journaling
Event: Women in Medicine 2019 (features Ellen Forney)
Event: SICK! Festival 2019
Event: NMHH Graphic Medicine Bookclub
Event: Midday at the Oasis: Inclusive Graphic Medicine: Communication, Collections and Community
Event: Graphic Medicine – Using Comics to Understand Health, University College Dublin
CFP: Comics and the Shaping of Identity: Queer Spaces and Gendered Places (Panel)
CFP: Comics, Collections, Communities
Call for Art: 2019 Conley Art of Medicine Contest
Patreon: Rachel Lindsay
Opportunity: Jillian Tamaki to offer mentorship for two cartoonists
Webcomic: I’m Not Your Anti-Vaxxer Scare Tactic
Webcomic: Pills, Pills, Pills
Webcomic: Why Am I Scared to Ride a Bike?
Webcomic: By All Means (a few years old)
Webcomic: Understanding The Spectrum – A Comic Strip Explanation (from early 2019)
Book: Captain Langerhans: Diabetic Superhero!
Book: Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives, 1st Edition
Book: Qualification: A Graphic Memoir in Twelve Steps
Scholarly: Microbiology can be comic
Scholarly: Graphic novelisation effects on recognition abilities in students with dyslexia
Online Course: Making and Understanding Web Comics
Book Review: Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame
Book Review: The Tenderness of Stones
Book Review: INDIE VIEW: ‘The Lady Doctor’ demystifies the medical world
Book Review: Real Time Responses to THE LADY DOCTOR by Ian Williams
Book Review: Kid Gloves, A. David Lewis’s review
Twitter: Think about voices in your curricula
Twitter: A thread from #CSS19
Twitter: There was some graphic medicine in the NY Times Print Edition
Twitter: Upcoming book!
Paradigms, power and practices
Boon Docs, life as a rural doctor tickles the funny bone
ACP Meeting Highlights the Value of Graphic Medicine
INDIE VIEW: Baltic publisher kuš! still pushes the boundaries of comics
Art, Technology, Medicine: A Winning Educational Trio
Arlington author uses comic books to teach students, assist patients
Philly graphic novelist explores the emotional roller coaster of hip replacement
Cole Pauls’s comics preserve First Nations language — and also celebrate punks eating pizza
Four of the best graphic memoirs of the year — so far
Some great stuff this week! Did I miss something? Let me know in the comments below or tweet @NoetheMatt! Until next time…
Hi Matthew so sorry we didn’t get to connect personally in Brighton. Perhaps you saw my presentation about my book “Life Support Invitation to Prayer” at the Lightening talks on Friday night? It was just published for the Graphic Medicine series by Penn State Press , but Alas!!!! due to a shipping glitch, the book wasn’t available at the conference for signing or sales (Big sad emoji goes here cause that was going to be my five minutes of fame!!!!) Anyway I DO have copies of the book now, and if you do not have one, I would love to send you a copy. What’s your preferred snail mail address? I’m in NYC until Sept 25. , just in case you are near by, perhaps we can meet.? Also , I have several other books with my drawings being published this year, and have started a new visual memoir about Abortion called “Severity of Compassion the Political is (still) Political.” Lots to share!
Hi Judith,
I did see your lightning talk – it was great! I am sorry we never did get a chance to connect one-on-one though. I’m based in Boston, but don’t do too much local travel so I’m likely to miss you in NYC.
I’d love to see a copy of your book! For snail mail, my work address is best (and I can comfortably post it publicly):
ATTN: Matthew Noe
Countway Library
10 Shattuck Street
Boston, MA 02115 USA
That new visual memoir is going to have to stay on our radar – super relevant right now!
Cheers,
Matthew