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Blind Readers and Comics: Reflecting on Comics’ Storytelling from a Different Perspective

Dittmar, J. F. (2019). Blind readers and comics: reflecting on comics’ storytelling from a different perspective. Comics Forum. Retrieved from https://comicsforum.org/2019/08/04/blind-readers-and-comics/ ABSTRACT: This paper discusses comics for the blind, based on the example of the tactile comic life by Philipp Meyer and Astérix par Touchtatis ! by Olivier Poncer. It looks into the potential and the restrictions of sequential pictorial… Read More »

Dismantling the “Visual Ease Assumption:” A Review of Visual Narrative Processing in Clinical Populations

Coderre, E. L. (2019). Dismantling the “visual ease assumption:” a review of visual narrative processing in clinical populations, Topics in Cognitive Science. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tops.12446 https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12446 ABSTRACT: Visual narratives, such as wordless picture books and picture sequences like comics, have a long history in clinical testing, research, and intervention settings. The widespread “Visual Ease Assumption”… Read More »

Fanon’s Police Inspector

Fink, A. E. (2019) Fanon’s police inspector, AJOB Neuroscience 10(3), 137-144. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21507740.2019.1632970 ABSTRACT: Frantz Fanon practiced psychiatry in a colonized Algeria during its struggle for independence. In his 1961 work The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon described cases from his treatment of Algerian nationalists and French colonists. I present one of Fanon’s cases as an ethical inquiry into posttraumatic… 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 »

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 »

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

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 »