‘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…
This week is yet another no-contest for pick of the week, since on Thursday, March 1st, we saw Dr. Patti Brennan, head of the National Library of Medicine, moderate A Conversation about Graphic Medicine with Ellen Forney, MK Czerwiec, and Dr. Michael Green. This talk was coordinated to go with the launch of the NLM traveling exhibit, Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn, which is making its way across the country to libraries and other public institutions as we speak. (If you make it to this year’s Comics and Medicine Conference in Vermont, you’ll have a chance to see it there.)
The event was live-streamed (some 80+ people watching across the globe) and recorded. The recording is not yet available as of this posting, but I’ll be sharing it widely once it is and will be sure to include it in next week’s post. The discussion on Twitter was lively as well! And thanks to Patricia Anderson, we have a record of it in the form of this Storify.
Finally, in the true spirit of graphic medicine, I want to highlight this sketchnote of the conversation by Medicina Grafica superstar Monica Lalanda:
Great conversation about past present and the bright future of #GraphicMedicine by some of the experts
At #NLMHistTalk #nlm with @NLMdirector @ellen_forney @mjg15 @ComicNurse
A bit disorganised recording…they said so many interesting things! pic.twitter.com/vlGoSJ5YZa— monica lalanda (@mlalanda) March 1, 2018
Articles & More…
Kickstarter (Last Chance!): CORPUS: A Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments
Kickstarter: It’s All In Your Head – A Collection of Mental Health Art
Wikipedia: Comic Book Therapy
Event: A conversation about comics and health with Cathy Leamy and Tony Pickering
Event: Reflective Drawing for Recovery, Resilience, and Care
Webcomic: African-Americans Are More Likely to Distrust the Medical System. Blame the Tuskegee Experiment. via @TheNib
Webcomic: Dating a Trans Person Changed My Partner’s Life via @TheNib
Webcomic: “Rapid Research and Implementation Priority Setting for Wound Care Uncertainties” via @ScienceofCookie
Webcomic: Nobody is Coming to Save Us From Climate Change via @TheNib
Webcomic: Medikidz explain eye tests
Interview: Comics Alternative Kickstarter: Corpus: A Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments via @2GuysWithPhDs
Interview: A Conversation about Graphic Medicine – Interview with MK Czerwiec
Interview: Cartoonist Alison Bechdel Takes You On A Tour Of Her ‘Inappropriately Intimate’ Comics
Interview: „Die Comics zeigen, wie wir Krankheit erleben“
Interview: Cancer Owl in American College of Gastroenterology Magazine
Blog: On Display at the NLM
Book Review: Back, Sack & Crack (& Brain) – Robert Wells Puts the ‘Graphic’ in ‘Graphic Medicine’ in His Bleakly Funny Comics Memoir via @BrokenFrontier
Scholarly (News): What can cartoonists teach engineers?
Facebook: STEM Research Drawing Jam (via Leah Misemer)
Facebook: Mom’s Cancer in Japanese!
Medical Humanities: Why Frankenstein matters: Frontiers in science, technology and medicine via @audreyshafer
Graphic Novels Offer Windows, Mirrors on Mental Health via @sljournal
Incarcerated Teens Write Graphic Novels
On Monstress and Mental Health
Stronger together: How a comic and unique Nova Scotia program aim to help those with PTSD
Celebrating World Book Day UK 2018 – 10 Entry Point Graphic Novels for Non-Comic Readers that Showcase the Unique Language of the Form via @BrokenFrontier
Tweets…
Art is medicine. Yes.
Helen Molesworth on Simone Leigh’s practices of care. @Artforum pic.twitter.com/IeQ7Pja4wC— Lisa Diedrich (@lldiedrich) February 27, 2018
Grace Farris in NYC #JHMChat pic.twitter.com/wcMuFmIfSd
— Grace Farris (@gracefarris) February 27, 2018
.@NarrativeMed .@GraphicMedicine .@MuseumModernArt #Migraine #NarrativeMedicine #Animation #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/mTeBMvJFFM pic.twitter.com/qrHAp8Y64Z
— Medical Narratives (@MedNarrative) February 23, 2018
Have an interest in merging of art and medicine? Join us 3/1 for a live viewing of the @nlm_news “A Conversation about #GraphicMedicine” a discussion on the emerging field combining comics and the illness narrative!
📅 Thursday 3/1
📍 Lahey Room
⏰ 2:00 – 3:30 pm pic.twitter.com/DAexGoTjB6— Countway Library (@HMSCountway) February 23, 2018
Nice use of graphics in this talk @JMBurns99 @NoetheMatt #GraphicMedicine Charming bowels | Giulia Enders | TEDxDanubia https://t.co/Jtn7guvN3J via @YouTube
— Bennery Rickard (@BenneryM) February 23, 2018
Are comics just for kids, or is it appropriate to offer health education comics to adult patients? This case explores the risks and benefits of #graphicmedicine in clinical practice https://t.co/gx8B9jsbaj
— AMA Journal of Ethics (@JournalofEthics) February 24, 2018
Therapy is not for the ‘weak’ or those solely with mental health problems but for every human who owns a brain. Because talking is good.
Another thought provoking Body Squabble webcomic from @robertbidder #FridayFeeling https://t.co/3tKykxUntT pic.twitter.com/T5H5Kgs4Er
— Wellcome Collection (@ExploreWellcome) February 23, 2018
If you mean “no comics” to be no images in the article…then I have to tell you that’s a distressingly common occurrence.
I’m less bothered by it in this case, but the number of articles I read testing a specific comic w/o any way to see it makes my head hurt. #GraphicMedicine
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) February 24, 2018
Physicians are rated on multiple platforms. Some have little to do with the actual care they provide. What if the tables were flipped and doctors could rate their patients, payers and administrators? @ZDoggMD @happydocpodcast @GraphicMedicine @kevinmd
https://t.co/Vl53BY1WfT— Doc Related (@Doc_Related) February 24, 2018
What a delight, browsing @OKComics on a Saturday afternoon. Some great @GraphicMedicine titles. And so much more… pic.twitter.com/Kjc7fxwbK1
— Amelia DeFalco (@AmeliaDefalco) February 24, 2018
Question: how is it #pediatrician types seem to have such clear eyed advice on #kids and #childraising? Answer: A little bit of #science, #experience, and a whole lot of #perspective. #WeAreInItToo! (And we make our own mistakes to be sure) #graphicmedicine pic.twitter.com/hg4LAwL0Mu
— jackmaypole (@drmaypole) February 24, 2018
#GraphicMedicine reveals burdens of being a physician in the current system and suggests alternatives through art @jessicahelfand @quickmuse @_Continuum @JeffersonUniv @MarkTykocinski https://t.co/Sl8ydBuxe2
— Peter Lloyd Jones (@studioscientist) February 24, 2018
Such a good thing happening on Monday night #Brighton @WallisEates is coming to town! #autobio #comics working with brain injury survivors Join us at 6 for 7pm Southern Belle, Waterloo St, Hove BN3 1AQ pic.twitter.com/s4mNfMaq46
— Cartoon County (@cartooncounty) February 23, 2018
.@NarrativeMed .@GraphicMedicine #PublicHealth needs an #Interdisciplinary approach https://t.co/AJrNKMAvSr #NarrativeMedicine
— Medical Narratives (@MedNarrative) February 25, 2018
New comic tells the story of fibromyalgia https://t.co/Mj2Tjq5rwL Esp liked the misdiagnosis chapter in this. Illnesses such as #fibromyalgia #MyalgicE can be a vacuum into which all (new) symptoms are sucked – or thrown, by HCPs. #graphicmedicine
— Paula Knight (@Paula_JKnight) February 25, 2018
What about comics depicting life as a med student…? pic.twitter.com/vuRCwPrgTn
— Unicyclemedic (@unicycle_medic) February 25, 2018
A diagnostic screening method called a “review of systems” sometimes yields unexpected and helpful results, as this comic illustrates https://t.co/MlxSKaH9hx pic.twitter.com/U7pQJi2F2r
— AMA Journal of Ethics (@JournalofEthics) February 25, 2018
On using fear as a strategy to manage healthcare costs. https://t.co/X8v8n7H6wS #humor #comics #GraphicMedicine #irony
— P. F. Anderson (@pfanderson) February 26, 2018
Hi, if you love #seriouscomics (in this case on miscarriage) would you like to help me? I submitted a short comic (two pages) to a medical journal. They like it but they want some revisions. I can’t tell where the problems are. Feel like critiquing? #graphicmedicine
— Lia Hiltz (@Liahiltz) February 26, 2018
Thanks for this! I’m teaching the Tuskegee Experiment next month for a public health ethics class and will link to this for further reading. Great addition to some of the other comics I’ll be referencing
— Sheila Ngọc Phạm (@birdpham) February 27, 2018
I got another question about examples of good #GraphicMedicine about transgender health – and just like last time, I find myself struggling to find much.
Am I simply missing it or is there really so little out there (and basically ALL web-only comics)?
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) February 26, 2018
You may want to check out First Year Out: A Transition Story. I wrote about it here: https://t.co/bgqB7t29uH
— Johanna Draper Carlson (@johannadc) February 26, 2018
Glad I could help. That was a tough one to write for just that reason. Hated to be a wet blanket.
— Johanna Draper Carlson (@johannadc) February 26, 2018
Dang. Thanks for the review. I had that on my to read list for a bit but was hesitant (trans woman here) and have seen many poor trans comics.
But yeah, that would be a good panel for a comics and medicine talk. We should talk about that for next year, Matt.
— Kate Deibel (@metageeky) February 26, 2018
The ones on that list (aside from Rooster Tails) really don’t get much into the experience of being trans. Wandering Son (the manga) is a good portrayal in some ways (but heavily influenced by Japanese culture of trans issues) and is ugh as it nears the end.
— Kate Deibel (@metageeky) February 26, 2018
There is some #transgender #GraphicMedicine content or themes in these pic.twitter.com/iAdmsnp0Vv
— P. F. Anderson (@pfanderson) February 26, 2018
¡Hala, qué bien!
Por fin los médicos empiezan a “prescribir” cómics a los pacientes.#MedicinaGráfica#GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/5lo3XSY5bk— Blanca Mayor Serrano (@mayorserrano) February 26, 2018
We are astounded by your work, mate!!
Such simple drawing with such powerful messages!! You are great!
Do you know the @graphicmedicne movement? #Graphicmedicine https://t.co/tVuSWGSEJg— medicina-grafica (@GraficaMedicina) February 26, 2018
The Wendy Project by Melissa Jane Osborne #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/Culz8KlWRg via @goodreads
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) February 26, 2018
#GraphicMedicine / Homesick by Jason Walz https://t.co/abcVsBcTbi via @goodreads
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) February 26, 2018
#Teaching in #clinical #medicine is a two way enterprise- our #patients are an invaluable source of hard to know information. We are all lifelong #learners. #graphicmedicine pic.twitter.com/p6HScmop6K
— jackmaypole (@drmaypole) February 27, 2018
Oh the prestige#medicine #doctor #juniordoctors #nhs #medicalschool #comics #medicalschoollife #unicyclemedic #medstudent #medschool #medschoolprobs #graphicmedicine pic.twitter.com/flYLnQvsR5
— Unicyclemedic (@unicycle_medic) February 27, 2018
A comic of mine in an article @dlfkultur about the Pathographics exhibition in Berlin. It’s in German – I don’t know what it says but it looks nice. https://t.co/FrecNC4Iss #pathographics #graphicmedicine #comicsandmedicine
— Paula Knight (@Paula_JKnight) February 27, 2018
Our Best Shot: The True Story of an Illegal Supervised Injection Facility in … #GraphicMedicine https://t.co/whGuxdVQSJ via @amazon
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) February 27, 2018
Graphic novels are an important reminder to clinicians that subjective experience and objective data are not always so cleanly separated https://t.co/026kD4IANm pic.twitter.com/4BYM7xeDEM
— AMA Journal of Ethics (@JournalofEthics) February 27, 2018
Using #graphicmedicine in #meded can give learners new opportunities to gain insights into making diagnoses and recommending treatments https://t.co/qafRzVaHaA
— AMA Journal of Ethics (@JournalofEthics) February 28, 2018
Latest post on Visually Cochrane is about making #CochraneEvidence more understandable as a comic strip by @ScienceofCookie https://t.co/aMaCu3xoUv This is pure gold! @tlassers @CochranePCG pic.twitter.com/rQB8j0hNbh
— Jani Ruotsalainen (@MrJaniR) February 6, 2018
ALBUMINURIA! Check out @COREIMpodcast at https://t.co/FmcSdFuZyU@Marty_Fried @ShreyaTrivediMD @COREIMpodcast pic.twitter.com/341IDv0pom
— Mike Natter, MD (@mike_natter) February 28, 2018
Graphic Medicine keeps growing and spreading. It is increadibly exciting! The potential of it all is massive! 💉🎈🎆🎨
Looking forward to that streaming too!— medicina-grafica (@GraficaMedicina) March 1, 2018
How to survive… pic.twitter.com/0AEi2z51bR
— Ambidexter (@DrKathrynKo) March 1, 2018
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome #usmle #medschool pic.twitter.com/52dlne88yb
— Simon R. Downes, PhD, MS2 (@medschoolradio) February 19, 2018
What comics studies books belong in the #GraphicMedicine collection I’m building at Countway? Send me your suggestions!
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) February 28, 2018
“Feet and eye clinic check 1” #type1diabetes #comic #diabetes #feet #eye #clinic #wip #pencil #colour #selfie #digitalart #sketch #sketchbook #medicine #patient #experience #graphic #poetry #panels #illustration #art #sciart #artscience #mcrschart #postgrad #bigartboost pic.twitter.com/gpirz0yzoc
— Tony Pickering (@mrpickers) February 28, 2018
Not strictly speaking a comic, but this may interest folks in the #GraphicMedicine world. https://t.co/O9uBJxv5qz
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) February 28, 2018
.@NarrativeMed .@GraphicMedicine If you had a chance to attend a free skills-based #Arts workshop to produce your own #HealthNarrative which workshop would you be most interested in attending? #NarrativeMedicine #MedicalHumanities #GraphicMedicine
— Medical Narratives (@MedNarrative) February 28, 2018
It’s #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek & we have books to help you learn & understand more, e.g. Lighter Than My Shadow by @KatieGreenBean a graphic memoir of #eatingdisorders abuse & recovery #graphicnovel @GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/Q02BdWkoFu
— Newcomb Library 📚💻📱🤔ℹ (@NewcombLibrary) March 1, 2018
Excellent job! We should start “translating” scientific evidence into visual language #GraphicMedicine @GraficaMedicina for both professionals and patients’ benefit. It works wonders and reaches much further!
cc @CochraneIberoam @cochranecollab pic.twitter.com/5eZUyfZ2di— monica lalanda (@mlalanda) March 1, 2018
The last four pages of roughs for #RICK4 Think I can see the light at the end of this crazily dark and long tunnel! (Hmm, Dark and Long! Think I’ll put some Underworld on today,) #RICK #comics #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/7zrrdWdv6K
— Gordon Shaw (@flashvsming) March 1, 2018
La #gripe. Esa tocanarices silenciosa, o… no tanto.
Protégete si es que puedes. 😬
General #flu info and #educational #materials #comics in different languages.#MedicinaGráfica #GraphicMedicine@Init4Health @NoetheMatt @GraphicMedicine @VirologyComics https://t.co/0rjx04vwx9 pic.twitter.com/rWyyMTO86X— Blanca Mayor Serrano (@mayorserrano) March 1, 2018
Si tienen #gripe, cúbranse, mis hijos, y no contagien al personal.
😤#MedicinaGráfica#GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/t9dfYfofxC— Blanca Mayor Serrano (@mayorserrano) March 1, 2018
After 2 days in NYC @BuzzFeed I’m on the bus headed home to @NIH for the @nlm_news @NLM_SIS conversation on #GraphicMedicine. I think it’s streaming too should be a good convo. I’m excited to meet other creators who have a passion for reaching the public through comics. #health
— Joseph R. Vivens (@ChunkyNFriends) March 1, 2018
Listening to this podcast again today and the discussion of Binky Brown and Hyperbole and a Half as anchors for comics, particularly graphic memoir, is powerful. https://t.co/aZNpnUSZQc via @graphicmedicine
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 1, 2018
Im watching this great conversation about #graphicmedicine put together by @nlm_news @NLM_SIS. I advise you tune in. #Health #fitness #entrepreneur #thinkhealthy https://t.co/iGvp3CDpEL
— Joseph R. Vivens (@ChunkyNFriends) March 1, 2018
This is a great example of #graphicmedicine I highly recommend it! https://t.co/SDQhGBprz3
— Alice Jaggers (@AJaggers324) March 1, 2018
As it’s #UniversityMentalHealthDay: I’m developing a range of #comics which deal with mental health issues. Looking for Universities and charities to work with/support. RTs appreciated. @GraphicMedicine @MindCharity @mentalhealth @mhtodaymag @TimetoChange pic.twitter.com/EHTd6JyVRH
— Gareth Cowlin (@garethcowlin) March 1, 2018
I missed this yesterday, but Twitter communities more-than-count for #GraphicMedicine. Without the GM Twitter community, my blog posts would’ve never even started.
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 2, 2018
More from @cecebellbooks and the Graphic Medicine exhibit! https://t.co/DbplosyiRB
— Tom Angleberger (@OrigamiYoda) March 1, 2018
Oh no!
I’m over here trying to figure out how to get copies of things like Georgia Webber’s ‘Dumb’ into our collection. The processes we have in place (in nearly all libraries) don’t work well for small prints. #GraphicMedicine
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 1, 2018
For @pfanderson and @metrokitty: I have been including them in the scoping review on #GraphicMedicine as medical education. Without them, the depth of literature for consumer health in GM from pre-1990 and in many non-English speaking countries disappears.
Fair or?
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 1, 2018
It’s making me think of the times I’ve seen minicomics referred to as “zines.” It’s like, hrm, they’re NOT, but they’re still totally at home in zine conventions, and I’m OK with people lumping them in with discussions of zines.
— Cathy Leamy (@metrokitty) March 1, 2018
That’s how I was using them. It’s one of those blurry boundaries. Most zines I know lack the sequential aspect that would make them a mini comic, but zines has way fewer letters and is easier to type than mini comics. And I don’t have to ask if I need to hyphenate it. 😉
— P. F. Anderson (@pfanderson) March 1, 2018
However, photonovels / fotonovelas / photoromans are clearly combining images and storytelling in a sequential form. To my mind, they are FAR more comics than zines are. Historically referred to as such in the early #GraphicMedicine literature (predating the official term)
— P. F. Anderson (@pfanderson) March 1, 2018
This “sequential” piece is such a point of contention. I have seriously started to think of the question “what counts as a comic” as the 3rd Rail of #GraphicMedicine. Touch it at your own risk. #NLMHistTalk https://t.co/NmnRUiqsHZ
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 1, 2018
(Personally, I include single panel comics when I give graphic medicine talks and describe “what does ‘comics’ include”)
— Cathy Leamy (@metrokitty) March 1, 2018
I wasn’t part of the panel and superheroes tend to be missed in our #GraphicMedicine discussions, but some of the work @TomKingTK has been doing – both with Vision and Mister Miracle – are ripe for mental illness/caregiving discussions. #NLMHistTalk
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 1, 2018
I made it! For the last 15 minutes but I did get to chat with MK for a few. She told me about the @GraphicMedicine conference in #Vermont. Fingers crossed it doesn’t overlap with my 10th wedding anniversary. Thanks @nlm_news @NLM_SIS for hosting can’t wait to watch it in full. pic.twitter.com/460Hu5Lt0w
— Joseph R. Vivens (@ChunkyNFriends) March 1, 2018
A rough* timeline of education-driven #GraphicMedicine.
*I cannot emphasize this enough. This is what’s emerging from a dive into the published, scholarly, medically focused literature. There is so much that *feels* like it’s there but isn’t well-documented. pic.twitter.com/t2A4OX8dzx
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 1, 2018
My “homework” this weekend. 50 or so potentially relevant to #GraphicMedicine articles to abstract. pic.twitter.com/lFUSI2CqfK
— Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) March 1, 2018
Excited to host @matteofarinella, author of Neurocomic (https://t.co/P5w94Cy2yp) for a Visual Storytelling Lab on March 4! https://t.co/1vUXwiLRHx
— Genspace (@genspacenyc) February 21, 2018
An interesting discussion – just a note, the Graphic Medicine exhibit does include cartoonists of color, e.g. @marinaomi & Whitney Taylor
— Ellen Forney (@ellen_forney) March 2, 2018
#VisibleWomen I do autobio comics as well as collaborations. Currently crowdfunding ‘Like an Orange’ about brain injury survivors, incorporating their art. More about this project here: https://t.co/74tFZASsHm #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/nu2jbhMWAe
— Wallis Eates (@WallisEates) March 2, 2018
‘‘Graphic Medicine’ as a Mental Health Information Resource: Insights from #Comics Producers’: an #openaccess article on #ScienceOpen.#GraphicMedicine #HigherEducation #Interviews #mentalhealth #socialcare https://t.co/f7hGwuZDvA pic.twitter.com/Ins0elWToj
— ScienceOpen (@Science_Open) March 2, 2018
Simply glorious box to open this morning #TheInkingWoman @NicolaStreeten @CathTateCards is here! Massive congratulations @comicopera and all. Published 29 March. Preorder here: https://t.co/a5UNraYbMp pic.twitter.com/DJZPOWyP9w
— Myriad Editions (@MyriadEditions) February 26, 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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