Monthly Archives: August 2020

Capturing Alternate Realities: Visual Metaphors and Patient Perspectives in Graphic Narratives on Mental Illness

Venkatesan, S., & Saji, S. (2021). Capturing alternate realities: visual metaphors and patient perspectives in graphic narratives on mental illness, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 12:5, 924-938, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2020.1809482 ABSTRACT: The diverse affordances of the medium of comics like spatio-temporality and visual rhetorical devices enable artists/patients who suffer from mental illnesses to approximate their experiential reality via graphic narratives. The graphic… Read More »

Capturing Alternate Realities: Visual Metaphors and Patient Perspectives in Graphic Narratives on Mental Illness

Venkatesan, S. & Saji, S. (2020) Capturing alternate realities: visual metaphors and patient perspectives in graphic narratives on mental illness, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2020.1809482 ABSTRACT: The diverse affordances of the medium of comics like spatio-temporality and visual rhetorical devices enable artists/patients who suffer from mental illnesses to approximate their experiential reality via graphic narratives. The graphic… Read More »

A Novel Graphic Medicine Curriculum for Resident Physicians: Boosting Empathy and Communication through Comics

Ronan, L. K., & Czerwiec, M. K. (2020). A novel graphic medicine curriculum for resident physicians: boosting empathy and communication through comics. The Journal of medical humanities, 10.1007/s10912-020-09654-2. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-020-09654-2 ABSTRACT: Curricular design that addresses residency physician competencies in communication skills and professionalism remains a challenge. Graphic Medicine (GM) uses comics, a medium combining… Read More »

The Man of Fate at Hospitals of Hope

Lewis, A. D. (2020 August 13). The man of fate at hospitals of hope. Medium. Retrieved from https://medium.com/@captionbox/the-man-of-fate-at-hospitals-of-hope-63b10f1403d3. ABSTRACT: What would happen if Boston’s superhero visits hospitals’ pediatric departments? A. David Lewis, Graphic Medicine scholar and writer of Kismet, Man of Fate, asked Dr. Jack Maypole just that question. Knowing Dr. Maypole’s talents at the Boston Medical… Read More »

How Comics Creators are Using the Theme of the Pandemic to Depict the New Normal in Everyone’s Lives

Venkatesan, S., & Yuvan, S. (2020). How comics creators are using the theme of the pandemic to depict the new normal in everyone’s lives. Scroll.in. Retrieved from https://scroll.in/article/969725/how-comics-creators-are-using-the-theme-of-the-pandemic-to-depict-the-new-normal-in-everyones-lives ABSTRACT: Comics in the time of the pandemic are capturing the intricate stories, agonies of existence and new terms of engagement – the way any responsible art would.

How Comics Creators are Using the Theme of the Pandemic to Depict the New Normal in Everyone’s Lives

Venkatesan, S. & Yuvan, S. (2020). How comics creators are using the theme of the pandemic to depict the new normal in everyone’s lives. Scroll.in. Retrieved from https://scroll.in/article/969725/how-comics-creators-are-using-the-theme-of-the-pandemic-to-depict-the-new-normal-in-everyones-lives ABSTRACT: Comics in the time of the pandemic are capturing the intricate stories, agonies of existence and new terms of engagement – the way any responsible art would.

Graphic Medicine Quantified: An Annotated Bibliography

Lewis, A. D. (2020). Graphic medicine quantified: an annotated bibliography. Graphic Medicine. Retrieved from ABSTRACT: A challenge for Graphic Medicine is its being juxtaposed alongside biomedical and scientific fields of work that operate largely in the realm of statistics and quantifiable analytics. Often, the scholarship in Graphic Medicine comes without numbers. It is anecdotal, experiential,… Read More »