This Week in Graphic Medicine (8/30/2019)

‘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…

There’s been a lot of ongoing discussion about how to make comics accessible, specifically for those with visual impairments, both within the graphic medicine community and the larger comics scholars world. Perhaps this new audio comic – Unseen – might give us an approach that can work.

Articles & More…

Event: NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium: James Romberger

Event: Hysteria or Misogyny? Women, Madness, and Mental Health

Patreon: Jade Sarson (mental health comics and more)

Webcomic: A Park Slope-Stoop Horror Story

Webcomic: If All Public Services in America Worked Like Healthcare

Webcomic: Op-Art: The Shame of Crowdfunding Health Care

Comic: Excerpt: The Book of Sarah

Scholarly (Comic Article): Fanon’s Police Inspector

Article about the above: Not in Gotham anymore: Bioethics of treating a torturer’s PTSD explored in comic book form

Scholarly (Comic): What about Serology? A Micro-Comic Strip

Scholarly: Anorexia through creative metaphors: women pathographers and graphic medicine