Monthly Archives: March 2020

The CDC’s Use of Comics to Fight the Spread of Coronavirus

Dille, D. R. (2020). The CDC’s use of comics to fight the spread of coronavirus. Global News Hut. Retrieved from https://globalnewshut.com/the-cdcs-use-of-comics-to-fight-the-spread-of-coronavirus/ ABSTRACT: It is flown below the radar slightly in latest weeks that the USA’ Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, also referred to as the CDC, are utilizing the comics format on their widely-distributed… Read More »

Is It Medicine, Is It Religion, or Is it Both? An Interview with Comic Book Writer Al Ewing

Lewis, A.D. (2020, March 16). Is it medicine, is it religion, or is it both? An interview with comic book writer Al Ewing. BMJ Medical Humanities Blog. Retrieved from https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2020/03/16/is-it-medicine-is-it-religion-or-is-it-both-an-interview-with-comic-book-writer-al-ewing/ ABSTRACT: In this discussion with award-winning comic book author Al Ewing, comics theorist and graphic medicine researcher A. David Lewis explores the growing idea that the comics… Read More »

Mental Health, Comics, the Grad Student!

Kumar, K. S. (2020, March 15). Mental health, comics, the grad student! GradHacker. Retrieved from insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/mental-health-comics-grad-student ABSTRACT: A couple of weeks back on Twitter, I tweeted about my mental health diagnosis and how I am currently pursuing a English Ph.D. on comics as a method to process trauma and negotiate marginalization. This tweet got hundreds of likes… Read More »

Graphic Medicine Online

Lewis, A. D. (2020, March 7). Graphic medicine online [Paper presentation]. NEMLA Conference: Saving the Day: Accessing Comics in the 21st Century, Boston. ABSTRACT: I would like to highlight a number of the online and digital options available to readers, creators, or scholars in Graphic Medicine. For better or for worse, this will be a… Read More »