Tag Archives: religion

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 »

Is It Medicine, Is It Religion, or Is it Both? An Interview with Comic Book Writer Al Ewing

Lewis, A.D. (2020, March 16). Is it medicine, is it religion, or is it both? An interview with comic book writer Al Ewing. BMJ Medical Humanities Blog. Retrieved from https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2020/03/16/is-it-medicine-is-it-religion-or-is-it-both-an-interview-with-comic-book-writer-al-ewing/ ABSTRACT: In this discussion with award-winning comic book author Al Ewing, comics theorist and graphic medicine researcher A. David Lewis explores the growing idea that the comics… Read More »

The Art of Kaddish

Abramowitz, H.B. (2019). The art of Kaddish, The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved from https://www.jpost.com//Israel-News/The-art-of-Kaddish-610754. ABSTRACT: Life Support: Invitation to Prayer, by Israel-based American artist Judith Margolis, is an autobiographical account of an adult woman who is catapulted into her mother’s progressively complex end-of-life conundrum as she slips into the abyss of advanced diabetes. It is not… Read More »