Tag Archives: graphic memoir

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 »

Use of a Graphic Memoir to Enhance Clinicians’ Understanding of and Empathy for Patients with Parkinson Disease

Myers KR, George DR, Huang X, et al. Use of a graphic memoir to enhance clinicians’ understanding of and empathy for patients with Parkinson disease. Perm J 2020;24:19.060. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7812/TPP/19.060 ABSTRACT: Context: Parkinson disease (PD) can be physically, emotionally, and financially burdensome. Understanding its impact from the patient’s perspective is an important way to sensitize clinicians to… Read More »

Reflections on the Boom of Graphic Pathography: The Effects and Affects of Narrating Disability and Illness in Comics

Wegner, G. (2019). Reflections on the boom of graphic pathography: the effects and affects of narrating disability and illness in comics, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. Retrieved from https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/jlcds.2019.18 ABSTRACT: Over the past decade, autobiographical comics that focus on experiences of illness and disability—a genre also known as “graphic pathography”—have not only received… Read More »