Category Archives: journal

Our Global Guild: Responding to Sathyaraj Venkatesan’s “On Health Humanities and Graphic Medicine”

Lewis, A. D. (2020). Our global guild: Responding to Sathyaraj Venkatesan’s “On health humanities and graphic Medicine”. The Golden Line: A Magazine of English Literature. Retrieved from http://goldenline.bhattercollege.ac.in/v3n103b/ ABSTRACT: Graphic Medicine, the intersection between comic books and medicine/healthcare, is growing worldwide, especially in India. Among its pioneers there is Sathyaraj Venkatesan, whose approach and utilization… Read More »

Graphic Medicine—The Best of 2020

Green, M.J., & Wall S. (2020). Graphic medicine—the best of 2020. JAMA. Retrieved from doi:10.1001/jama.2020.19479 ABSTRACT: Unsurprisingly, some of the most important and interesting work in graphic medicine in 2020 related to the coronavirus pandemic. The sheer volume of comics-based material related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is immense and growing daily. For this reason we focus… Read More »

Literature and Medicine Welcomes Comics Editor MK Czerwiec

Literature and Medicine. (2020). Literature and Medicine welcomes comics editor MK Czerwiec. Literature and Medicine. Retrieved from https://www.press.jhu.edu/news/blog/literature-and-medicine-welcomes-comics-editor-mk-czerwiec ABSTRACT: The journal Literature and Medicine recently welcomed its new editorial board, including MK Czerwiec, who has been named the journal’s first Comics Editor.  MK Czerwiec is a nurse, educator, author, comic creator, and one of the co-creators of the field… Read More »

Using Medical Comics to Highlight Medical Humanities

Masel, E. K., Kitta, A., Koblizek, R., & Praschinger, A. (2020). Using medical comics to highlight medical humanities. Medical Education 54(11). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14308 ABSTRACT: Studying medicine comprises the extensive acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes. However, humanism in medicine, which combines scientific knowledge and skills with respectful, compassionate care that is sensitive to the… Read More »

Using Comics and Curiosity to Drive Pandemic Research on a National Scale

Kearns, C., Kearns, N., Braithwaite, I., Shortt, N., Eathorne, A., Semprini, A., & Beasley, R. (2021) Using comics and curiosity to drive pandemic research on a national scale. Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine 44 (1), 12-22, DOI: 10.1080/17453054.2020.1823206 ABSTRACT: An independent online Public Health survey regarding the COVID-19 pandemic was conducted during an Alert… Read More »

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 »