Graphic Medicine
Graphic Medicine is a site that explores the interaction between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare. We encourage participation by academics, health carers, authors, artists, fans, and anyone involved with comics and medicine.
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Spotlight: Long COVID Superheroes (opens the original)
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guest post by Louise Dickinson, Founder and Artistic Director of Alchemise Theatre www.alchemisetheatre.co.uk/ louise@alchemisetheatre.co.uk Alchemise Theatre are an arts and health charity creating projects that seek to improve wellbeing for all. We believe in the power of daring to hope. We believe that making art can bring light to difficult times, transforming them into something luminous. Louise, our Founder and Artistic Director formed the charity as she emerged from her (now) six year lon
Graphic Medicine Podcast: Shrub (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Graphic Medicine podcast! Your hosts are Alex Thomas (https://boostershotmedia.com/) and MK Czerwiec (https://comicnurse.com/.) After an opening chat, Alex and MK spoke with Barbra Dillon and Shane Portman about the Kickstarted for Shrub, an eight issue comic series about grief and connection. Shownotes: Shrub Kickstarter Fanbase Press Info re the Creighton Graphic Medicine exhibit Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. Speeches of Malcolm X “We are Lady Parts” Anthony Horowitz, The
Medical Mentions Book Reviews XX (opens the original)
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Medical Mentions are a group of graphic works. The graphic works reviewed here are works whose primary topics are not medical, yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six
Spotlight: Ariya Desai (opens the original)
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Ariya Desai is a high school student with a passion for health education, the empowerment of the South Asian community, and using creative storytelling to make complex medical topics more accessible. Through her graphic story, she explores why South Asian populations face a higher risk of developing diabetes.
Spotlight: Jojo’s Not So Great Day (opens the original)
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Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on Jojo’s Not So Great Day,a new comic from clinical cartoonist Brian Narelle. About the Work Jojo’s Not So Great Day is the tale of a young firefly who misinterprets a friend’s indifference and starts down a negative spiral of beliefs, emotions and behavior…until she meets a Thinkafeeladoo who guides her to three islands, the Island of Think, the Island of Feel and the island of Do. It turns
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