Comics as Research: Patients’ Reading in Psychiatric Institutions Around 1900
Anna Böhler’s research focused on the topic of reading practices in historical psychiatric contexts. She presents some of her findings in comic book format.
The X-Men’s Poison Pill of Big Pharma
A. David Lewis analyses recent X-Men titles to uncover the problem with Big Pharma as a main antagonist
Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Mental Disability
Yoshiko Okuyama explores the emerging genre of comics in Japan, tōjisha manga, and discusses how these comics illuminate and humanise the otherwise “faceless” people’s invisible tribulations caused by mental disability. Manga, or Japanese comics, is
Challenging Narrative in the Critical Medical Humanities
Tom Hey explores the role of illness narrative in the medical humanities, from its importance in cementing the field to crucial questions about what lies beyond.
Graphic perspectives on caring, ageing and end-of-life
Writer and English Professor, Kathleen Venema, explores comic book depictions of the often complex and complicated worlds of ageing, caring and end of life. Over eight panels in Joyce Farmer’s 200-page graphic memoir, Special
On Picturing Epilepsy: An Informed Reading of ‘Epileptic’
Claire Jeantils explores David B.’s Epileptic through the lens of graphic medicine, arguing that care must be taken when using illness comics as teaching tools.
The Mundane Virus
Guest author Chase Ledin explores how comic books become a significant platform for HIV/AIDS narratives with the example of Charles Burn’s Black Hole (2005) series. Black nights. Bone-like branches. The stars open from a
Drawing Dad’s Dementia
In this post, Tony Pickering shares his art reflecting on his father’s dementia. I met Tony at the Curating Health: Graphic Medicine and Visual Representations of Illness conference in Stockholm last December, hosted by the
By stealth and by design…Using graphic medicine as a teaching tool in the medical school
In this post, Liz Brewster shares material from her recent talk on integrating graphic narratives into medical education at Curating Health: Graphic Medicine and Visual Representations of Illness hosted by Nordic Network Gender, Body