‘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…
Continuing the trend of highlighting the National Library of Medicine’s work with Graphic Medicine, this week I want to highlight the latest GM Podcast, in which MK discusses the field with Dr. Patricia Brennan, director of the NLM. I encourage you to head right over and listen to the entire thing, but two quotes from Dr. Brennan stood out to me as a medical librarian and I want to think on them briefly.
Without Graphic Medicine we were incomplete… it addresses an unaddressed dimension of health and it provided us a way to archive these expressions of that dimension. – Dr. Patricia Brennan
First, this is the “headline” quote if you will – that pithy statement that captures the essence of the post so well it will be quoted over-and-over for years. I absolutely agree with this and applaud the addition of graphic medicine “artifacts” as she calls them to the NLM collection!
I think it’s important for us, from the perspective of a library, to begin to think about the grammar, and if you will, the formalization of graphics … beyond saying here’s the author, the title, the subject… is there a picture vocabulary that we can create around these… – Dr. Patricia Brennan
And second, this isn’t so much a quote as a train of thought. I won’t go too far into this since there is a huge conversation to be had here, but one of my concerns from the get-go with graphic medicine has been any attempt at formalization. Thinking about new ways to connect comics thematically isn’t necessarily formalization, but I want to urge caution when developing a “vocabulary”. After all, we’re in an age where “illegal aliens” as a Library of Congress Subject Heading remains in place because of politics and that’s only the most loud example of late. We must be careful of whose perception and voice is mapping out these connections. It would be to the detriment of GM to veer toward standardized experiences – it’s not called a movement or manifesto for nothing. Those concerns aside, I’m excited to see how far the field can go, especially with the resources of the NLM behind it!
So as not to end on that contrary note, a reminder to keep an eye out for information about this year’s Comics and Medicine conference! Abstracts have been reviewed and notice of acceptance will be heading out next week!
Articles & More…
Webcomic (on Facebook): Deep Sedation & Mortality
Webcomic: The Kids Are Getting Organized Against Mass Shootings via @TheNib
Webcomic: Seven Years After the Fall of a Dictator, Unrest Still Rules in Tunisia via @TheNib
Webcomic: Be Heard! A Comic For Student Rights From CBLDF & NCAC
Webcomic: Aim via @Lunarbaboon
Webcomic: Nogard the Dragon in The Search for Spinoza: Page 6 (features ophthalmology)
Webcomic: Osteoarthritis vs. Rheumatoid Arthritis
Blog: Graphic Medicine at the National Library of Medicine (a behind the scenes look)
Scholarly: International Conference on Medical Education Abstracts (PDF) – See, “Integration of Graphic medicine in teaching Pharmacology to Optometry Students” on page 132
Book Review: I Kill Giants via @comics_teacher
Book Review: Los Combates Cotidianos via @GraficaMedicina
Book Review: Delve Deeper into the Discussion About Mental Health with ETERNITY GIRL #1
Book Review: Imagine Wanting Only This
Medical Humanities (Scholarly Blog): The Limits of Empathy (Part Two: Empathetic Voyeurism, Selfishness, and Inaction) via @performillness
Where We Live: Las Vegas Shooting Benefit Anthology TP
Inside the Comics Collection of the World’s Largest Medical Library
What are the health benefits of being creative?
5 Fabulous Queer Comics Anthologies
A new comic book anthology raises money for Puerto Rico, telling stories of history and fantasy
Health humanities library collections gifted to UIC
Graphic Guide to Infectious Disease – Coming Soon!
Tweets…
The biomedical impact of Adverse Childhood Events (ACES aka #traumatic experiences)…#methylation of DNA that can lead to health problems in #adulthood. Would that we had a #VisualDiagnosis for this. So! thoughtfully query to identify kids who need help. #graphicmedicine pic.twitter.com/YUdwQHfHVw
— jackmaypole (@drmaypole) March 9, 2018
This portion of Why Comics? illustrates psrt of why our taxonomies for searching #GraphicMedicine struggle. Cartoon, comic, etc. all have so many meanings that it becomes a broad, murky mess. pic.twitter.com/9iCabNNwv9
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 9, 2018
Dr Debbie Frank: regardless of what happened before they arrived on the planet (what their #parents may have done, or where they may hail from) ALL #infants and #children deserve our love and care. #pediatrics @BUcme #graphicmedicine To their Health! pic.twitter.com/zbsaQmEOiN
— jackmaypole (@drmaypole) March 9, 2018
Lo prometido es deuda! Ya está disponible la Guía de recomendación de activos/recursos saludables en el sistema sanitario https://t.co/ytFgk9SqZQ pic.twitter.com/x1RW1gxfCu
— obsaludasturias (@obsaludasturias) March 7, 2018
Day 9: 3 words to describe #endo. Or, Larks. Or, “a slouch doctrine of a clutch!” ? @GraphicMedicine @PedagogyAmLitSt @lsmisemer @aaronkashtan @mlalanda @CtrForEndoCare @DrSamiSchalk #theendophotochallenge #EndometriosisAwarenessWeek #endometriosisawarenessmonth pic.twitter.com/c1qpYVmfOT
— Dr. Darcy Mullen (@FarmsWatson) March 9, 2018
Spanish doctors still work 24 hour shifts … you don’t need the translation to get the idea that “Fatigue kills you … and your patients too”
(My @bmj_latest opinion on 24 hour shifts here: https://t.co/d4HEq8JKBW ) pic.twitter.com/4EPLr4yDmd
— Michael Farquhar (@DrMikeFarquhar) March 10, 2018
Day 10: distractions! ? why be a person if you can be a pasta! ?@GraphicMedicine @lsmisemer @mlalanda @CtrForEndoCare @GradFoodStudies @icpetrie @Halcyon_L @EmilyContois #theendophotochallenge #EndometriosisAwarenessWeek #endometriosisawarenessmonth #SaturdayKitchen pic.twitter.com/1GHTYxYpKI
— Dr. Darcy Mullen (@FarmsWatson) March 10, 2018
Shari King and Sarah Qin: On #BMC’s #AutismFriendly Initiative. Classical clinic space is a hornet’s nest of #stressors & #triggers for #children on the spectrum. Goal: make the patient experience less taxing and overstimulating. Training and redesign TBD! #BUcme #Graphicmedicine pic.twitter.com/avhKqFnCCc
— jackmaypole (@drmaypole) March 10, 2018
Sunday #RICK working #cancercomics #graphicmedicine pic.twitter.com/y271iHXfza
— Gordon Shaw (@flashvsming) March 11, 2018
A panel discussion on the rapidly expanding field of Graphic Medicine at The National Library of Medicine, featuring our own @ellen_forney – Check it out! https://t.co/isV44QweTB pic.twitter.com/sBVjq6fRbp
— Fantagraphics Books (@fantagraphics) March 11, 2018
Day 12: other illnesses ? Stockholm Syndrome vs #endo ?@GraphicMedicine @mlalanda #theendophotochallenge2018 #endometriosisawarenessmonth @Endofound @CtrForEndoCare @Endoandme @Halcyon_L @icpetrie @lsmisemer @francescalyn @END0GAB @Endoandme @court7180 pic.twitter.com/FPAp6GdvY9
— Dr. Darcy Mullen (@FarmsWatson) March 12, 2018
Thanks to our guests and audience, in the room and globally for a wonderful discussion on #GraphicMedicine @nlm_news — Thanks also to @jeffreysreznick and the History of Medicine team for an exciting exhibit! https://t.co/n8g8AllpXw
— Patti Brennan (@NLMdirector) March 12, 2018
“Did Ritalin Make Me Who I Am?” https://t.co/eOxOT8LBBu #comics #graphicmedicine #adhd
— tyler page (@tylerpage) March 12, 2018
There is actually a movement for the use of comics and/with health @GraphicMedicine and at Columbia the @NarrativeMed degree.
— QC GSLIS youth (@GSLIS_youth) March 13, 2018
Dana Kearley made this zine about #endometriosis. You can check out the whole thing and her own words about endometriosis here: https://t.co/iUFTdOrwUp #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth #zines pic.twitter.com/uUQBohQBiz
— Charissa Lucille (@CharissaLucille) March 10, 2018
‘Don Barroso’, cómic y música contra el cáncer. Zarva Barroso homenajea a a todos los que luchan contra el cáncer” Una obra galardonada con el Premio de Novela Gráfica Social Divina Pastora https://t.co/uT8D4OXOch pic.twitter.com/LC8mwDsuZB
— Viñetas y bocadillos (@vinetabocadillo) March 13, 2018
The medical journal needs revisions for clarity before they’ll consider publishing. Okay. Agree. So, literally, back to the drawing board. Thanks to my dear commenters, and to the inventor of the whisky sour. #comics #WIP #graphicmedicine pic.twitter.com/z6FIiLXgUo
— Lia Hiltz (@Liahiltz) March 13, 2018
Hiram College had a #graphicmedicine competition and my entry won!
— tyler page (@tylerpage) March 13, 2018
. #miscarriage #graphicmedicine #comics pic.twitter.com/J2cJDoRwLQ
— Lia Hiltz (@Liahiltz) March 13, 2018
The role of #comics in #medicine – #MichaelGreen @mjg15 chats in this 2017 podcast about his experience using comics to teach 4th yr #medicalstudents https://t.co/g2eKdqOTgu #offthechart #graphicmedicine @GraficaMedicina @NoetheMatt @DotMDConf @GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/J8OlLYxEVi
— Init4Health (@Init4Health) March 13, 2018
This week we are thrilled to be hosting award-winning graphic memoirist @robotpilot, judge of the 2017-2018 #graphicmedicine competition. Please join us Thursday at 7 for her lecture “Drawing Forward: Using Art to Cope with a Terminal Diagnosis.” https://t.co/5DMmuhhK8n pic.twitter.com/0WCX3QmAMg
— HiramLitMed (@hiramlitmed) March 13, 2018
@jon_chad @AlecLongstreth Thanks to all of the lashes that the 2 of applied to my carcas the last 2 & 3 years respectively, the comic I wrote 2 years ago at Cartoon studies won third place in the Hiram College Graphic Medicine Competition. Thanks! https://t.co/emjOeUyVCJ
— Stefan Tigges (@StefanTigges) March 13, 2018
#dotMD2018 captured in cartoons by the amazingly talented @mlalanda ! https://t.co/9UHSziSbIX pic.twitter.com/2j6PnjuheB
— dotMD (@DotMDConf) March 13, 2018
Pls send #epic #GoLive advice ? #graphicmedicine #physicianburnout #physicianwellness @JHospMedicine pic.twitter.com/aC8N2Z7gPT
— Grace Farris (@gracefarris) March 14, 2018
How antihistamine works. pic.twitter.com/RJeNRztI2c
— Beatrice the Biologist (@beatricebiology) January 18, 2018
The 6 grades of heart murmurs
Shared by Vikranth Venugopalan at cardiology session #rcpch18
(Image found via https://t.co/aQXfekL2sE) pic.twitter.com/vXg5niguJy— Graham Mackenzie (@gmacscotland) March 14, 2018
The (not so rough) roughs of RICK4 are done. DONE! #RICK #cancercomic #GraphicMedicine #isthreemonthspastdeadlineTHATbad pic.twitter.com/c0H8zt4s3b
— Gordon Shaw (@flashvsming) March 14, 2018
A space that seems like it needs filling: health comics indie publisher. We need a Retrofit or Iron Circus but for patient memoir comics and healthcare zines and stuff.
— Cathy Leamy (@metrokitty) March 14, 2018
This is a thread and you should read it. If you share an interest in seeing this, do reach out to me!
And high fives to my fellow speaker @mrpickers – he is doing some gorgeous and fascinating personal experience comics work right now about type 1 diabetes.
— Cathy Leamy (@metrokitty) March 14, 2018
Thank you – and back at’cha. Great to see your work and to talk #comics and #GraphicMedicine @ManMetUni @McrSchArt!
— Tony Pickering (@mrpickers) March 14, 2018
Wilkins on graphic medicine: “comics can bring aesthetics into realms that don’t usually consider affect” @wilkinspeter #SCMS2018
— Candida Rifkind (@CandidaRifkind) March 14, 2018
Just about everyone who follows me on Twitter are fans of #comics memoir and/or medical comics. Also, most of you are saddled with crushing depression and anxiety. So why aren’t you reading @depdavecomics? Support this guy. He’s doing good work. @GraphicMedicine? @NoetheMatt?
— ReadingDoonesbury (@ReadDoonesbury) March 15, 2018
Dr/patient etiquette after endoscopy last wk. ‘You’re about to stick a 2-ft long camera up my arse, the least you could do is say ‘hello’!’ pic.twitter.com/83BbUFXjbt
— Matilda Tristram (@MatildaTris) March 14, 2018
This may interest #GraphicMedicine folks – a dramatic interpretation of an educational TB comic. pic.twitter.com/nc3OMQ1mLl
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 15, 2018
I love this article but I cringe every time at the use of “animated”. As best I can tell, these were webcomics and could be read at the readers pace, rather than video that controls time. #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/G2GbXj87ge
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 15, 2018
#graphicmedicine #medicine #doctor #juniordoctors #nhs #medicalschool #comics #medicalschoollife #unicyclemedic #medstudent pic.twitter.com/SFuApeMtd2
— Unicyclemedic (@unicycle_medic) March 15, 2018
So happy to welcome the Palliative Care Team’s (I’m their librarian) Art Hive pop-up to the Schulich Library this morning! They do such excellent work. @McGillLib #medlibs #canmedlibs pic.twitter.com/HgpSfno4Rb
— Martin Morris (@marteno) March 15, 2018
Streetwize UK: a controlled trial of an AIDS education comic #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/t61eQXcsFP
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 15, 2018
Medical Comics as Tools to Aid in Obtaining Informed Consent for Stroke Care #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/woK359XmTZ
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 15, 2018
Comic Cognition: Exploring the Potential Cognitive Impacts of Science Comics #GraphicScience #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/O3i9cakqrU #CiteSeerX
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 15, 2018
Wondering if any other country has an allocated national day for fighting violence and assaults against health workers. Today is such a day in Spain. Not proud that we need it. #StopAgresionesASanitarios pic.twitter.com/8MVYy6oq51
— monica lalanda (@mlalanda) March 15, 2018
The Drawn-Out Battle Against Stigma: Mental Health in Modern American Comics and Graphic Novels #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/FyEzxrCY0O
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 15, 2018
A Novel tool for Health Literacy: Using Comic Books to Combat Childhood Obesity #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/EOMPN2h5Uz
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 15, 2018
Autography as auto-therapy: psychic pain and the graphic memoir. (@TheBadDr) #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/OkTi3JS7Nv
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 15, 2018
Watch Professor Lynda Barry show Dr. Michael Green how to draw skeletons with his eyes closed, from her recent visit to @penn_state. https://t.co/a8yNfJ84lT
Find more videos in the series on Dr. Green’s Graphic Medicine Youtube Channel!#art#drawing#creativity
— UW-Madison Art Dept (@UW_ARTdept) March 15, 2018
Huzzah! #CancerComics has been approved as an official course (rather than a “special topic”) at my school. Into the course catalogue it goes! #graphicmedicine
— A. David Lewis (@adlewis) March 15, 2018
And here we go!!!
Officially “breaking” for @DiabetesUK #dukpc #T1D Comic Book
Volume 2Free download due….soon pic.twitter.com/SeiQpNRshx
— Partha Kar (@parthaskar) March 15, 2018
This article is interesting, but the appendix of healthcare manga titles is my favorite part. Here’s hoping we see more of them translated going forward. #GraphicMedicine
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 15, 2018
‘Graphic Medicine’ as a Mental Health Information Resource: Insights from Comics Producers: https://t.co/WvqJDob1Vp pic.twitter.com/rHGlTq1yE6
— The Comics Grid (@ComicsGrid) March 15, 2018
Check it out!
“Understanding Transitional Care in Epilepsy” is the 6th comic book in the “Medikidz Explain #Epilepsy” series.#ComicBook#GraphicMedicine #MedicinaGráfica
Via @JumoHealth https://t.co/cHKM0Hr2ic— Blanca Mayor Serrano (@mayorserrano) March 15, 2018
“The Comics & Medicine Conference is our Burning Man.” – Me. It’s true though RIGHT?? @GraphicMedicine @NoetheMatt https://t.co/Jdhp8JcJz0
— Ellen Forney (@ellen_forney) March 15, 2018
Imparare come funziona il cervello attraverso un Graphic Novel italiano https://t.co/oEN2b4QhJ1 #biblioterapia #graphicmedicine #graphicnovel #leggere #lettura #libri @GraphicNewsCom @GraphicMedicine @OssMedNar pic.twitter.com/0628h5z5xG
— marco dalla valle (@biblioterapeuta) March 16, 2018
Sometimes it’s our smallest grants that make the biggest difference. #mentalhealth @ArtsCJS pic.twitter.com/sHOo71YswM
— Prisoners Education (@PrisonersEd) March 16, 2018
Rosarian @WhitTaylorComix will be a Keynote speaker at Comics and Medicine: The Ways We Work! https://t.co/KXEVYM7vKw pic.twitter.com/Cfhu4hTRlw
— Rosarium Publishing (@rosariumpub) March 14, 2018
The awesome @mlalanda has turned me into a comic @DotMDConf – thank you! ☺
Thank you for asking me to tell my story at #dotMD18 @RonanTKavanagh pic.twitter.com/WDUQuqYzaz
— Michael Farquhar (@DrMikeFarquhar) March 9, 2018
Good conversation with @mrpickers about medical identity. With an illness, you’re a patient to your clinician. But what are you outside the clinic? Are you still a “patient”?
— Cathy Leamy (@metrokitty) March 14, 2018
I just discussed the Suzie & Ray insulin comic at a talk! Woo, cosmic coincidence!
— Cathy Leamy (@metrokitty) March 14, 2018
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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