Lewis, A. D. (2022). Crashing course: an interview with Matthew Klein. Graphic Medicine. Retrieve from https://www.graphicmedicine.org/crashing-course-an-interview-with-matthew-klein/ ABSTRACT: Even in a world of superpowers and arch villains, healthcare can still be fraught, frustrating, and even futile. In Matthew Klein and Morgan Beem’s series Crashing (IDW Publishing), Dr. Rose Osler must push against her hospital’s policy of… Read More »
Hester, S. (2021). How comic strips create better health care. TED.com. https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_hester_how_comic_strips_create_better_health_care ABSTRACT: Comics creator Sam Hester is part of a growing movement within health care: graphic medicine. In short, literally drawing attention to a patient’s needs and goals with pictures to foster better and more accessible caretaking. Hester shares how illustrating small details of… Read More »
Noe, M. & Levin, L. (2020). Mapping the use of comics in health education: A scoping review of the graphic medicine literature. Graphic Medicine. https://www.graphicmedicine.org/mapping-comics-health. ABSTRACT: This study sought to map the use of comics in health education to better understand: a) what populations are targeted and b) what effect(s) their use have. As the field… Read More »
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 »