Category Archives: journal

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 »

Comics, Corn, and the Queer Phenomenology of Depression

McDonald, R. A. (2019). Comics, Corn, and the Queer Phenomenology of Depression. Literature and Medicine 37(1), 96-112. Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved August 9, 2019, from Project MUSE database. http://muse.jhu.edu/article/730825 ABSTRACT: Grounded in analyses of two graphic memoirs, Ellen Forney’s Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me and Allie Brosh’s “Depression (Parts One & Two),” this article draws from Sara… Read More »

Writing Medical Comics

Waite, M. (2019). Writing medical comics, Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/17453054.2019.1575641 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17453054.2019.1575641 ABSTRACT: The emergent field of medical comics is being lauded as a way to visually communicate medical information to patients more effectively than current methods. However, there is very little advice available in the literature as to how to design them. This… Read More »

Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine

Venkatesan, S., & Murali, C. (2018). Infertility comics and graphic medicine, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 61(4), p. 609-621. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/713167/summary ABSTRACT: Cultures around the world are replete with images of women as the epitome of love, kindness, patience, and similar virtues, owing to their ability to give birth. Consequently, those who cannot give birth due… Read More »

Reading Graphic Medicine at the National Library of Medicine

Tuohy, P., & Eannarino, J. (2018). Reading graphic medicine at the National Library of Medicine, Journal of the Medical Library Association 106(3), p. 387-390. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6013142/ ABSTRACT: The Exhibition Program, part of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, spotlights the collection of the library by creating exhibitions and educational resources that… Read More »

“No Time to Rest, Vent or Mourn”: Medical Intern Narratives and Graphic Medicine

Venkatesan, S., & Peter, A. M. (2007). “No time to rest, vent or mourn”: medical intern narratives and graphic medicine. Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society 1(2): 186-204. doi:10.1353/ink.2017.0013. ABSTRACT: Widely apprehended as a pressing problem that threatens to undermine the accomplishments of modern medical science, the psychosomatic and emotional enervation in medical trainees… Read More »