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It’s Okay to Stare: Visual and Unseen Disabilities in Comic Book Super Heroes

Butler, B. H. (2019). It’s Okay to Stare: Visual and Unseen Disabilities in Comic Book Super Heroes, MOSF Journal of Science Fiction 3(2), pp. 93-108. https://publish.lib.umd.edu/scifi/article/view/650/366 ABSTRACT: Since their inception in the 1930s, comic books and graphic novels featuring superheroes have reflected innumerable elements of science fiction, from space travel to technological human augmentation. Similar… Read More »

Towards a Theory of Graphic Medicine

Venkatesan, S., & Peter, A. M. (2019). Towards a theory of graphic medicine, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 11(2), pp. 1-19. Retrieved from http://rupkatha.com/V11/n2/v11n208.pdf ABSTRACT: As a constructive derivative of several altruistic movements, such as narrative medicine, medical humanities and health humanities, graphic medicine is a nonconformist ideological inverse to the absolutism of… Read More »

Healthcare for the Masses: Graphic Medicine

Noe, M. (ed.). (2019). Healthcare for the masses: graphic medicine. Booklist. Retrieved from https://www.booklistonline.com/Healthcare-for-the-Masses-Graphic-Medicine/pid=9720940 ABSTRACT: Written from the perspective of a librarian from Harvard Medical School, this overview of Graphic Medicine and its abundant growth in recent years. Noe highlights the diversity present in the rising field and points to work being done at Penn… Read More »

Diabetes Year One. Drawing my Pathography: Comics, Poetry and the Medical Self

Tony Pickering art

Pickering, T., 2019. Diabetes Year One. Drawing my Pathography: Comics, Poetry and the Medical Self. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 9(1), p.8. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/cg.147 https://cg.ubiquitypress.com/articles/10.16995/cg.147/ ABSTRACT: In this article I reflect on the creation of my graphic pathography Diabetes: Year One (2018). I discuss and evaluate the ways in which, trying to articulate a patient perspective that… Read More »

Drawing the Mind: Aesthetics of Representing Mental Illness in Select Graphic Memoirs

Sathyaraj, V., & Saji, S. (2019). Drawing the mind: Aesthetics of representing mental illness in select graphic memoirs, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459319846930 ABSTRACT: Representation of psychological experiences necessitates a creative use of means of expression. In the field of graphic medicine, autobiographical narratives… Read More »

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 »