April 2019 – Graphic Medicine Bulletin

Graphic Illness Memoirs as Counter-discourse

Sathyaraj Venkatesan & Sweetha Saji (2019) Graphic illness memoirs as counter-discourse, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2019.1641531 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2019.1641531 ABSTRACT: Medical and popular discourses often perpetuate stereotypes of the mentally ill that essentialize them as imbecile and violent, which in turn trivializes their voices and perspectives. Because of this, stereotyped representations of mental illness mediated through films, fiction, or… Read More »

How Do Techniques from Comics Narratives of Deafness Create a Sense of Disorientation and Potential Alienation that Reveal the Role of Sound in Graphic Medicine?

Lewis, A. D. (2019, April 9). How do techniques from comics narratives of deafness create a sense of disorientation and potential alienation that reveal the role of sound in graphic medicine? In Seeing Sounds / Hearing Pictures – A Round Table on Sound & Comics. The Middle Spaces. Retrieved from https://themiddlespaces.com/2019/04/09/seeing-sounds-part-one/ ABSTRACT: These rhetorical innovations… Read More »