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 »
Saji, S., Venkatesan, S., & Callender, B. (2021). Comics in the time of a pan(dem)ic: COVID-19, graphic medicine, and metaphors. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 64(1). Retrieved from https://muse.jhu.edu/article/785097 ABSTRACT: Comics have always responded to pandemics/catastrophes, documenting the way we deal with such crises. Recently, graphic medicine, an interdisciplinary field of comics and medicine, has been curating… Read More »
Venkatesan, S., & Lewis, A. D. (2021). Bringing superheroes into the fight against COVID-19 misinformation. The Caravan. Retrieved from https://caravanmagazine.in/health/superheroes-in-the-fight-against-covid19-misinformation ABSTRACT: In March 2020, Indian comic book publisher Raj Comics released Nagraj Strikes: The Attack of Coronaman, a comic on how Coronaman, a hideous and insidious villain, takes over the fictional city of Mahanagar to infect… Read More »
Sinclair, M. (2020). Superhero healthcare : graphic medicine, genre and public education comics. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Dundee]. EThOS ID: uk.bl.ethos.818451 ABSTRACT: This thesis has created a new sub-genre Superhero Healthcare and has tracked its development and its potential as a pedagogical resource. This study argues that the sub-genre stems from both graphic medicine and… 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 »
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 »
Mold, A., & Elizabeth, H. (2019). Superman vs. Nick O’Teen: anti-smoking campaigns and children in 1980s Britain. Palgrave Communications 1(5): 116. doi: 10.1057/s41599-019-0326-6. ABSTRACT: In December 1980, the Health Education Council launched a campaign designed to discourage children from taking up smoking. Advertisements on TV and in comics and magazines featured a battle between Superman… Read More »