Category Archives: journal

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 Faith and Medicine: When Comic Book Muslims Go to the Hospital

Lewis, A. D. (2020). Of faith and medicine: when comic book Muslims go to the hospital, Mizan Pop. Retrieved from https://mizanproject.org/pop-post/of-faith-and-medicine/ ABSTRACT: A curious thing happens with Muslim characters in comics when they enter a hospital: they become somehow more Muslim. It is like a superpower, yet it occurs both in the superhero genre and beyond. That… Read More »

Of Comics and Bipolar Disorder: A Conversation with Rachel Lindsay

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 »

“Lost Your Superpower”? Graphic Medicine, Voicelessness, and Georgia Weber’s Dumb

Venkatesan, S., & Dastidar, D. G. (2020). “Lost your superpower”? graphic medicine, voicelessness, and Georgia Weber’s Dumb. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 63(1): 207-220. ABSTRACT: Unlike deafness and disability, speech-related disorders—voluntary/ involuntary voicelessness, mutism, and their imperatives—have largely remained undertheorized both as scholarship and praxis. Given the primacy and over-privileging of vision, a consideration of… Read More »

Making the Brain Accessible with Comics

Farinella, M., & Mbakile-Mahlanza, L. (2020). Making the brain accessible with comics, World Neurosurgery, 133: 426. 430. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878875019328062?via%3Dihub ABSTRACT: A study conducted in Botswana by Mbakile-Mahlanza et al. revealed that patients and their families were often ill prepared to manage the consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and had limited understanding of the symptoms and… Read More »

Comics and Medical Narrative: A Visual Semiotic Dissection of Graphic Medicine

Jonathan Comyn de Rothewelle (2019) Comics and medical narrative: a visual semiotic dissection of graphic medicine, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 10:5-6, 562-588, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1530271 ABSTRACT: An empathetic patient-practitioner relationship has been shown to improve treatment and recovery among patients, and decrease the likelihood of malpractice suits among medical professionals. It is, therefore, puzzling why an empathetic approach to medical education… Read More »