Category Archives: interview

Cancer Gets Complicated: PW Talks with Kimiko Tobimatsu

Wurth, E. T. (2020). Cancer gets complicated: PW talks with Kimiko Tobimatsu. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved from https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/84424-cancer-gets-complicated-pw-talks-with-kimiko-tobimatsu.html ABSTRACT: In Tobimatsu’s graphic memoir, Kimiko Does Cancer (Arsenal Pulp, Nov.), the young, queer Asian-Canadian lawyer navigates a breast cancer diagnosis and the “cancer warrior” support group culture.

Drawing Infertility: An Interview with Paula Knight, Jenell Johnson, Emily Steinberg, and Phoebe Potts

Venkatesan, S., & Murali, C. (2020) Drawing infertility: an interview with Paula Knight, Jenell Johnson, Emily Steinberg, and Phoebe Potts, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2020.1764074 ABSTRACT: Although infertility is a gender-neutral health quandary, women are often blamed and stigmatised for the couple’s failure to reproduce. The valorisation of the maternal within the discursive constructions of womanhood engenders… Read More »

Of Comics and Bipolar Disorder: A Conversation with Rachel Lindsay

Venkatesan, S., & Saji, S. (2020). Of comics and bipolar disorder: a conversation with Rachel Lindsay. World Literature Today. Retrieved from https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2020/spring/comics-and-bipolar-disorder-conversation-rachel-lindsay-sathyaraj-venkatesan-sweetha ABSTRACT: Rachel Lindsay is a cartoonist based in Vermont and the author of a graphic memoir, RX, that was published in 2018 by Grand Central Publishing. RX explores the powerful interplay of word and image that resists… 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 »

The Graphic Art of Medicine

Kavanagh, R. (2019, August 29). The graphic art of medicine, The Medical Independent. Retrieved from https://www.medicalindependent.ie/the-graphic-art-of-medicine/ ABSTRACT: Dr. Ronan Kavanagh speaks to GP and graphic medicine artist Dr. Ian Williams, who will be curating an exhibition of graphic medicine at this years’ sold out dotMD conference. Dr. Ian Williams is the author of two graphic novels: The Bad… Read More »