‘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…
Special…
Library Con Live happened this past Wednesday – a great virtual conference meant for librarians involved in comics. Check out the hashtag #libraryconlive on Twitter to catch up! (On-demand viewings of most of the sessions will be made available I believe. Check with Library Journal for more information.)
Comics and Medicine: The Way We Work
The Center for Cartoon Studies has launched its page for the 2018 Graphic Medicine Conference! Here you’ll find logistical information – dates and some basic travel information – as well as confirmed keynote speakers. You will also find the call-for-papers information – proposals are due January 30th, 2018. Keep your eyes open for more information as it arrives!
Articles & More…
CFP: Mind the Gaps! The Futures of the Field
CFP: Supersex: Essays on Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero (deadline approaching)
Event: Public Health Health Humanities: Audience, Engagement, and Social Justice
Event (Conference in 2018): Graphic Medicine: What Is It…and What Does It Mean for Counselors?
Webcomic: Soundvision via @TheNib
Webcomic: Trump’s Tax Bill to Crush Puerto Rico via @TheNib
Webcomic: The Victorian Mommy Blog via @TheNib
Webcomic: Do You Feel Lucky, Punk? Five Cartoonists on Guns via @TheNib
Webcomic: The Menstrual Cycle via @Medcomic
Medcomic is one of those great ongoing works that I don’t always catch here with each new post. You should add it to your regular viewing!
Webcomic: ‘An Equal Opportunity Lie’: How Housing Discrimination Led to the Flint Water Crisis
Scholarly (Webcomic): Annals Graphic Medicine – Dear Doctor II
Scholarly: Childhood idols, shifting from superheroes to public health heroes.
Scholarly: Boxed In: Lessons From the Margins of Medical Student Comics.
Scholarly: Commentary on Boxed In: Lessons From the Margins of Medical Student Comics.
Scholarly (PDF): Graphic Medicine: Improving Education and Patient-Doctor Communication (presentation from Idun K. Østerdal & Anja Johansen)
Scholarly (Dropbox): Giving Graphic Narrative to Numbers
Book Review: El Fotografo
Book Review: The mystery of mom and dad
Library: Graphic Medicine Collection @ University of Maryland HS/HSL
Library: New Ideas at the NLM: Graphic Medicine
Blog: DC and NYC via @ComicNurse
Interview: An Interview with Metaphase author chip Reece
Comic series draws attention to common conditions
“Couldn’t Afford Therapy, So I Made This”: Powerful Comic Tackles Mental Health in Black Communities
Slings & Arrows Graphic Novel Guide: History Comics
Meet Uberheroes – the comic book characters looking after our children’s mental health
Rachel Cooke’s best graphic novels of 2017
The Best Comics & Graphic Novels of 2017
The 25 Best Comic Books of 2017
Tweets…
dear writers: your white characters have race and skin color too. write like you know that. otherwise you make them the default.
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) December 7, 2017
“In the end, people don’t view their life as merely the average of all of its moments – which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story.” ~ @Atul_Gawande #BeingMortal
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) December 7, 2017
.@geneluenyang “#WeNeedDiverseBooks because we all needs “mirror books”. Books that reflect our life back at us so that we know we aren’t alone. And “window books” allow us to learn to love those different from us.” #libraryconlive pic.twitter.com/GAYGxscU8R
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) December 6, 2017
“Making comics gives me the time to dig deep into things. How important is it to dig into your roots and know where you come from?” @pedrosa_cyril #LibraryConLive
— Jennifer Haight (@hipmamajenn) December 6, 2017
Now in an author chat with @KatieGreenBean about the award winning Lighter than My Shadow #GraphicMedicine #libraryconlive
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) December 6, 2017
Katie says it was actually quite the opposite of therapeutic at times!
(This mirrors what several creators said at the comics and medicine conference last June.) #GraphicMedicine #libraryconlive
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) December 6, 2017
The design of the book – heavy and large sheets – was a function of a huge story to tell. The realization of the double-meaning with the subject matter was an afterfact. #libraryconlive #GraphicMedicine
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) December 6, 2017
.@SinaGrace with the #GraphicMedicine shoutout to “Pedro and Me” as a comic that had a huge impact on them! #libraryconlive
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) December 6, 2017
I’m adding Superb to my list! Thanks for the mention @DrSheenaHoward https://t.co/NKsfSRTB9N #libraryconlive
— LibraryChristi (@librarychristi) December 6, 2017
Interesting feedback from people about the new book #TheSimpleGuideToSensitiveBoys. Have you read it yet? I hope it helps…! pic.twitter.com/SiLVBdImnI
— Betsy de Thierry (@betsydet) November 15, 2017
New comic! Rope! ..www.lunarbaboon.com pic.twitter.com/5eOPrYHFLn
— Lunarbaboon (@Lunarbaboon) December 6, 2017
#nightfloat pic.twitter.com/f5Jh8BFB5U
— Mike Natter MD (@mike_natter) December 6, 2017
The next version of the #T1D comic book….
Coming along…nicely ? #T1D @mbrp1 @simonenright @drpratikc @WilmotEmma @NoetheMatt pic.twitter.com/oiCA0lfnyZ— Partha Kar (@parthaskar) December 6, 2017
Can’t wait to see this Rock Star Resident speak at our 5th annual Symposium https://t.co/KmoDWNXtTm! Make sure to follow his twitter feed @mike_natter
This Med Student Makes His Own Comics To Help Him Study https://t.co/08tZgupvME via @buzzfeed— Lisa Meeks (@MeeksLisa) December 6, 2017
METAPHASE (2015) is a landmark comic.
It features the debut of the first ever superhero with Down syndrome. The heart of the story is universal though: everyone is capable of greatness, even when the odds are stacked against you.https://t.co/lu0cFiqLAC
— Peter Simeti makes comics! (@petersimeti) December 5, 2017
Today in old #GraphicMedicine articles: poor disability representation in comics, a problem since forever. pic.twitter.com/yJ9A4EL1e6
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) December 5, 2017
This Week is the National #influenza #vaccination Week #NIVW in the ??! Perhaps, before #flu shot, the public find it useful to DISTINGUISH what every vaccine stands for, how they work, and their similarities/differences cuz ignorant people are increasingly refusing #vaccines! pic.twitter.com/Z1zJ8pvG1J
— CimazaVirologyComics (@VirologyComics) December 5, 2017
It’s on my TBR pile!
I bet @ComicNurse would be up for that review.
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) December 5, 2017
I have to read it in spurts. It’s so heavy emotionally.
— Kate Deibel (@metageeky) December 5, 2017
Day 1: My go-to recommendation all year, TAKING TURNS: STORIES FROM HIV/AIDS CARE UNIT 371. Part memoir, part ethnography, this is must-read #GraphicMedicine. #libfaves17 pic.twitter.com/bztXDPTT1x
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) December 5, 2017
My book “The Visual Language of Comics” from @BloomsburyBooks has now been out for 4 years, today! #linguistics #comics https://t.co/qEriT9BciP pic.twitter.com/Nk5J74FTSE
— Neil Cohn (@visual_linguist) December 4, 2017
new one pic.twitter.com/zXmK9fm5rN
— the Awkward Yeti (@theawkwardyeti) December 3, 2017
? New piece ✨on change and failure ? pic.twitter.com/4kjKUV6zmo
— Mike Medaglia (@mikemedaglia) December 3, 2017
#GraphicMedicine / Artist’s Statement: First Position : Academic Medicine https://t.co/yl7aQuLbe1
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) December 1, 2017
Holiday shopping for all the women’s health history buffs in your life. @BirdcageBottom https://t.co/8ap18Q29Bb Use the Nimbus Ale to entice your uterus back into place! https://t.co/kJmXW4v3Dv
— Kriota Willberg (@Kriota) December 1, 2017
And yet again, why the #GraphicNovel matters as an art form, site for expressing disabled/chronically ill lives and why it needs to be in the classroom.
Yay for the #graphicmedicine series! https://t.co/M5QDC6bWsS— DisabilityHistory (@DisabilityHistr) December 1, 2017
‘Graphic Medicine’ as a Mental Health Information Resource: Insights from Comics Producers: https://t.co/WvqJDob1Vp #ComicsGridAdvent #Day1 pic.twitter.com/zdEe2zeylv
— The Comics Grid (@ComicsGrid) December 1, 2017
This unfinished @comic draft in progress shows how the #neurons in our #brains change over time with our experiences. The characters are immersed in ‘neuron forests’ that change as the characters grow #plasticity @100brainstories @soozaphone @marthaorbach #comic #graphicmedicine pic.twitter.com/is04lcyIAs
— Valentina Lorenzetti (@lorenzvnt) December 1, 2017
Diabetes insipidus #graphicmedicine #FOAMed #MedEd pic.twitter.com/00JDSIBUkl
— Sukriti (@dorsalganglia) December 2, 2017
Hello @NoetheMatt! Thanks very much for your interest. Funnily enough, I think we both saw Lynda Barry at BU last month…I’m also stoked for the ’18 #GraphicMedicine conference! I have some print copies on hand. If you can send me an address, I would be happy to send one.Thanks!
— Meg Boeni (@MegBoeni) December 2, 2017
@ComicNurse Just finished your wonderful book “Taking Turns”. I literally laughed (some) and cried (lots). I added your book to the required reading list for my graphic medicine course. You replaced “Fun Home”, my all-time favorite grapic novel. High praise! See you in Vermont!
— Stefan Tigges (@StefanTigges) December 2, 2017
A few panels from upcoming All Is Not Well stories by me and @jonasalarsen and @berniemagic #carersrightsday #makecomics #graphicmedicine #allisnotwell pic.twitter.com/Pi90ofnJGN
— jonathan clode (@chode9mm) December 3, 2017
Neuroscientist-Graphic Novelist Leads Readers on Journey through Brain’s Five Senses | Columbia News https://t.co/oteK0XUrOD
— Narrative Medicine (@NarrativeMed) December 4, 2017
I’m doing all things comics & graphic narratives in the spring @WGSSSBU @stonybrooku. 1. Upper-level class on Graphic Cultures (WST390) + 2. freshmen seminar on Comics & Medicine (SSO102) = so excited!!
SBU students, hope you’ll join me!#graphicmedicine pic.twitter.com/atFBTQUvtH— Lisa Diedrich (@lldiedrich) December 4, 2017
Biorepository consent form uses #graphicmedicine in #umprecisionhealth pic.twitter.com/ysYMD7hMrc
— P. F. Anderson (@pfanderson) December 4, 2017
I’m still crowdfunding for my collaborative comic book with brain injury survivors. Learn more here and please do make a pledge! #graphicmedicine #braininjury #crowdfunding https://t.co/aBH5n2IFSg pic.twitter.com/Uc0XRotfnh
— Wallis Eates (@WallisEates) December 4, 2017
Har du vaska gulvet? Under luke 5 i #BMHkalender finner du ei bok fra #graphicmedicine samlinga vår.
“Vaskedamen” av Anna Fiske er ei bok som nærmer seg temaet død og sorgreaksjoner hos unge. En flott ressurs for pårørende, for pasientinnsikt og pasientundervisning. @fiskeanna pic.twitter.com/t4vGkbm140— NTNU BMH Library (@NTNUbmh) December 5, 2017
Last week to request free copies of Parables of Care for 2017 delivery! https://t.co/gz5hrCEPe9 #comics #dementia pic.twitter.com/JzcGxDhM9I
— Ernesto Priego (@ernestopriego) December 5, 2017
As #healthcare providers for #children, we #pediatricians must make every effort to offer #safe and #effective #therapies for our patients. #Parents: got questions/concerns? Ask ‘em. #Education is a core part of our job and is key to better care. #graphicmedicine. pic.twitter.com/zdDX4XJNH8
— jackmaypole (@drmaypole) December 5, 2017
Love Twitter for this. Today in my Twitter feed, watercolour #pneumococcus, blood cells illustrated in cake, just need some more #transfusiontoons and my day will be made! #graphicmedicine https://t.co/rsdsfrlQGr
— Stem Cell Evidence (@evidencestemc) December 5, 2017
“Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see.” Edgar Degas #designprocess pic.twitter.com/STvn1O8c5a
— Design One Thing (@designonething) December 6, 2017
#GraphicMedicine comic about #HIV Adherence https://t.co/8ePNbvJSqo
— UMMS Library (@UMMSLibrary) December 6, 2017
Et si la #bandedessinée permettait de mieux comprendre nos maladies ? Cette expo de “médecine graphique” montre comment le dessin peut aider à mieux cerner la souffrance des patients.➡ https://t.co/mgs8CMXz1N @GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/OlAS8ufKrB
— ARTE Journal (@ARTEjournal) December 6, 2017
#Tablet Use Increases #NeckStrain – a #cartoon abstract https://t.co/AKCnQkkwY8 full article https://t.co/nCUQiIV68N – I know which abstract I prefer ??️ pic.twitter.com/kXbPnEQtdN
— Init4Health (@Init4Health) December 6, 2017
In the latest addition of the Annals Graphic Medicine series, a patient expresses outrage at the insensitive behavior of the emergency room physician. How could things have gone so wrong?
See more at: https://t.co/Cd35l6t4dC pic.twitter.com/TOyP3z2ex6
— Annals of Int Med (@AnnalsofIM) December 6, 2017
Excited to get into @rachael_‘s Wired Up Wrong (#GraphicMedicine)! My kickstarter copy arrived from the UK today – you can still get one here: https://t.co/GgBGy8i01l pic.twitter.com/8Jgws4Qlw5
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) December 6, 2017
A randomized study of multimedia informational aids for research on medical practices: Implications for informed consent https://t.co/ClrKKGgT2a @LexComica Thanks to @GraphicMedicine
— Gabry Vanderveen (@Recht_op_Beeld) December 7, 2017
Excellent grand rounds on humanism by Dr. Teresa Gilewski of @sloan_kettering @DOMSinaiNYC @MSWSL_Library #MedEd #graphicmedicine pic.twitter.com/Mc48kWUuqP
— Grace Farris (@gracefarris) December 7, 2017
Honored to bring #graphicmedicine to @ACAAtlanta2018, presenting alongside @ComicNurse and @TheBadDr! We’re fourth from the top: https://t.co/6NOPeISGzx
— Devlyn McCreight (@DrDevlyn) December 7, 2017
Visual representations of anorexia in “Lighter Than My Shadow” by Katie Green #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/fzjKvFkxd5
— Secret Stacks (@SecretStacks) December 8, 2017
Ok #comicbook I have darjeeling #tea and nice light… I’m ready!#wip #freelance #Illustrator #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/ZnVvsVHIGg
— Eliza Wolfson (@eliza_coli) December 8, 2017
Family history is a factor in brain tumour prognosis’s. #RICK #GraphicMedicine #cancercomics pic.twitter.com/8PDrURy7Ys
— Gordon Shaw (@flashvsming) December 8, 2017
Graphic medicine – en ny type medisinsk litteratur? Utforsk samlingen vår her i biblioteket, og les om utstilling ved NLM! @NTNUhelse @borgelillebo @havarka @StOlavsHospital @HealthNTNU https://t.co/0IAQh6v0wE
— NTNU BMH Library (@NTNUbmh) December 8, 2017
New Graphic Medicine Collection https://t.co/InbjgU4HhL pic.twitter.com/dDrjtpUoIf
— UMB HS/HSL (@HSHSL) December 8, 2017
The exhibition on comics and medicine is already underway. @SabariegosCharo @uclm_es @MedicinaAB pic.twitter.com/msxO9q3kEU
— Antonio Mas (@AntonioMasAB) December 4, 2017
✨? In case you missed it I have now started a publishing company with my business partner Darren Shill! We are a mind, body, spirit publisher and will be making books/products on a wide range of topics like yoga, tarot, mindfulness and more! Please follow us at @liminal_11 ?✨ pic.twitter.com/o2G8nIcj9p
— Mike Medaglia (@mikemedaglia) December 6, 2017
A randomized study of multimedia informational aids for research on medical practices: Implications for informed consent https://t.co/ClrKKGgT2a @LexComica Thanks to @GraphicMedicine
— Gabry Vanderveen (@Recht_op_Beeld) December 7, 2017
Learn about Matteo’s upcoming title exploring the senses and check out his previous work, Neurocomic in #GraphicMedicine collection! https://t.co/l6JCwnEbSk pic.twitter.com/KzNWRjirUt
— UMMS Library (@UMMSLibrary) December 8, 2017
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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