Monthly Archives: March 2022

The Body Politic: A Review of Cells at Work!, vols. 1-6

Lewis, A. D. (2022). The Body Politic: A Review of Cells at Work!, vols. 1-6. BMJ Medical Humanities Blog. Retrieved from https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2022/03/30/the-body-politic-a-review-of-cells-at-work-vols-1-6/ ABSTRACT: In transforming the body’s routines and responses into a manga narrative, Cells at Work! fashions a social system for its cellular characters.1 That system, notably, more resembles a socialist autocracy than the democracy familiar to… Read More »

Addressing Psychiatric Disorders and Genetics: The Meaningful Use of Comics for Health Information

Paixão Pequeno, D., Pequeno Galvão, L., & Lourenço, G. J. (2022). Addressing psychiatric disorders and genetics: the meaningful use of comics for health information. Journal of visual communication in medicine, 45(3), 154–159. https://doi-org.ezproxymcp.flo.org/10.1080/17453054.2022.2029369 ABSTRACT: In the fields of healthcare and education, comics have shown considerable academic and teaching importance, with their combination of text and images. As… Read More »

No laughing matter!? Analyzing the Page Layout of Instruction Comics

Janina Wildfeuer, Ielka van der Sluis, Gisela Redeker & Nina van der Velden (2022) No laughing matter!? Analyzing the Page Layout of Instruction Comics, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2022.2053559 ABSTRACT: The study reported in this paper analyzes the specific genre of ‘instruction comics’ with regard to typical patterns of comic book pages. As a sequential-pictorial genre with… Read More »

‘The Time Is Out of Joint’: Temporality, COVID-19 and Graphic Medicine

Venkatesan, S., Joshi, I. A. (2022). ‘The time is out of joint’: temporality, COVID-19 and graphic medicine. Medical Humanities 48:e15. Retrieved from https://mh.bmj.com/content/48/4/e15 ABSTRACT: This article aims to theorise the human experiences of time during the lockdown (in the first phase of the pandemic) and the COVID-19 pandemic through the verbo-visual exposition of graphic medicine that combines the medium… Read More »