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This Week in Graphic Medicine (4/20/18)

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‘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, rather than highlight a particular work, I want to provide some suggestions on where you might publish your work – in particular, works of graphic art in the scholarly realm. I get this question quite often, and I still feel I don’t have all that many suggestions – here’s hoping that changes soon. I have not, as you’ll see, included comic publishers (big or small) or traditional book presses (with one exception). This is purposeful as publishing in those arenas is quite different than in scholarly journals. If you know of other venues that regularly seek submissions, please – PLEASE – share them with us so that we can in turn share them as well. I will update this post as suggestions come in. Note: I do not mean to endorse any particular publication by including it.

Annals of Internal Medicine, Annals Graphic Medicine Series is probably the most well-known and regularly published venue for scholarly, medically themed graphic works.

CMAJ is seeking ‘graphic medicine narratives’ to be published in their Humanities section. You can find more about this in their call (if you can’t access the full article, reach out to me) and some further information can be found by searching ‘graphic medicine’ on their submission guidelines page.

AMA Journal of Ethics, who recently published an entire issue dedicated to comics and medicine, has a standing Call for Art of Medicine, including comics.

Intima is a journal focused on narrative medicine, publishing everything from poetry to comics to short fiction and beyond. Unlike the other publications included here, they do not have a standing call for submissions, rather opening it up in Spring/Fall intervals. Typical guidelines can be found here.

Hektoen International is primarily a journal of medical humanities, but they also publish works of art. To date, they have published little in the way of comics, but their submission guidelines suggest they are open to all artistic forms.

Penn State University Press, Graphic Medicine Series is worth serious consideration if you are hoping to publish a longer-form work of graphic medicine. It is certainly not the only option – I can’t include them all here – but I would I would be remiss if I didn’t include the series here, given its importance to the field.

Articles & More… 

CFP: Medical Humanities in the Middle East

Kickstarter: EVERYTHING IS GOING WRONG: Comics on Punk & Mental Illness

Kickstarter: Detached: Into the Comasphere

Kickstarter: The Veligent (stretching the limits maybe – there is a story here about a doctor pursuing an “elite medical career” in a fantastical world)

Event: Leave Your Mark On The Future Of Health Care – And Our Mural At The Thompson Center!

Alex Thomas and Gary Ashwal of Booster Shot Comics were part of this amazing event. Alex posted some videos to Facebook. Take a look!

Event: Presentation at HCID Open Day 2018: On Comics and Collaborative Art Practice as a Human-Computer Interaction Methodology via @ErnestoPriego

Event: Needlework: Some Histories of Sewing the Body via @Kriota

Webcomic: Ouch via @TheBoonDocs

Webcomic: Comic 22 – Weeping Tissues via @RichStarkMD

Webcomic: Cell Mates: Oocyte via @Ootastic

Webcomic: The U.S. Government Won’t Guarantee Family Leave. New York is Trying to Change That. (by @StillVreni) via @TheNib

Webcomic/Narrative: “It’s Probably Bullshit.” – Paramedic Adventures by Phoebe Cohen.

Scholarly: Visual Analysis of the Challenges of Care giving in
Graphic Pathographies (PDF)

Scholarly: Development of an education campaign to reduce delays in pre-hospital response to stroke.

Scholarly: Annals Graphic Medicine – An Apple a Day via @StudioScientist

Disclosure: There is an acknowledgement to me at the end of this video. I took part in a panel discussion about graphic medicine, hunger, and activism during this project (more on that here). I firmly believe this mural project is one piece of a larger puzzle that can help us use the arts to not only inform, but to create a greater drive to enact change. Murals or Fine Arts make us feel – where do we go with those feelings is the next step and I believe comics can fill this space. 

Book Review: Archival Quality via @Comics_Teacher

Book Review: The Other Side via @Comics_Teacher

Book Review: Draw Stronger: Self Care for Cartoonists & Visual Artists by Kriota Willberg via @The_Intima

Book Review: Graphic Novel Review: Graphic Science: Seven Journeys of Discovery

Book Review: The Unravelling via @CMAJBlogs

Book (Author) Review: Telling on Your Secrets: Comics from Kevin Budnik, 2014-2017

Podcast: Rupert Kinnard Keynote via @GraphicMedicine

Interview: ‘Drawing Is Always a Struggle’: An Interview with Art Spiegelman

Interview: C2E2 2018: Magdalene Visaggio Talks “Eternity Girl”

Facebook (Video): Kieron Gillen discusses Robert Wells Back, Sack, & Crack (& Brain)

And a review in Kieron’s Newsletter as well!

Book Announcement: This Year’s Book – DRAWN TO SEX!!! [Reminder that the OJST website is NSFW]

Library (Blog): Graphic Medicine: A Personal Story (from Jill Newmark)

Library (Blog): Trend Alert: Graphic Medicine via @RAforAll

Library (Book Info): Comic Book Collections and Programming

Library: “Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived & Well-Drawn” exhibit in the Library until 5/26

A Human Humanities Course

Students’ zombie comics channel the horrors of med school

Nine Graphic Novels and Comic Books About Mental Health (Old post that got new traction this week)

50 Must-Read Middle Grade Graphic Novels

The 100 Pages That Shaped Comics

A local TV station hired a cartoonist to tell stories that are tough to photograph (Not medical, but relates to why we use comics too)

Tweets…

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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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