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Just learning about graphic medicine? Start here!
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items Learning about health, healthcare, caregiving and grief…through cartoons! Includes examples, DIY suggestions and more!
If you want to make a health related zine, start simple! I love this one page pattern!
How to make a zine from a single sheet of paper - Austin Kleon
If you want to learn more about what all the different players in the graphic medicine space are making happen, start with this organization
Comics and Medicine Conferences
Template for the one sheet/ eight page zine in Canva-just hit file then make a copy!
ONE PAGE ZINE TEMPLATE
This is a really interesting interview with the author of Look Again. Covers a lot of ground (including the idea that you don't need art “talent” to create a graphic memoir) and partly about the author's use of the creative process to metabolize trau...
Comics and trauma: Beth Trembley author of Look Again
There are a surprising number of videos online explaining how to fold a one page zine. However, I like mine best, because of the cameos from Sauce the Cat.
Bad Idea Good Story Zines: How to Fold Them
Check out this 2021 panel with several creators and publishers of graphic health memoirs discussing how (and perhaps more importantly why) graphic health memoir works.
Celebrating Fandoms Week 2021: Graphic Medicine: Building Empathy Through Storytelling
Can CARTOONS help demystify and clarify the need (and limits of) bystander CPR? An interview with an EMT and author (both! at the same time!)
Comics Promoting Bystander CPR with Annika Mengwall
If you enjoyed the interview with EMT and author Anna Mengwall, you can find more about all her written/drawn work here.
Annika F. E. Mengwall
This is my most favorite book about chronic PTSD, and it's the only one I know of where it's explained through the memoir lens of developing a relationship with an animal companion.
Learn about C-PTSD from a dog and her people
If you're interested in the process of making a hand drawn zine/book, Lawrence Lindell here talks about the process of making his graphic memoir about identity and mental health called From Truth With Truth. In this video he shows his raw drafts and ...
Making From Truth With Truth: A Graphic Memoir with Lawrence Lindell
Ever since I started making comic zines about health and healthcare, friends have reminded me that I need to do better with providing access to the content for those who--for example--use screen-readers. I have been making videos reading the content ...
Making graphic art more accessible
Drawn Together is an online creation party, in this case hosted by a doctor, artist and bioethicist. All in the same person. Although the online version of Drawn Together came out of the pandemic, each session of DT gives great ideas for graphic medi...
Drawing Together with Graphic Medicine: Making an Un-Mask
This is another example of a Drawn Together session, in this case about how to make a timeline. More graphic timelines about biology health and healthcare please! Also, the presenter even shows you how you can create a timeline as a gift!
Drawing Together #60--using timelines
If you want to see what is possible within graphic memoir, check out the author of RX, who was working in advertising at a large pharmaceutical company while trying to figure out the medication maze to treat her newly diagnosed bipolar 1 disorder.
RX-an author talk
This is much more engaging than it sounds; a webinar taught by Matthew Noe from the Lamar Soutter Library at UMass Medical School--about the history of graphic medicine, how the field has grown, and how the future looks (hint: bright!)
An academic history and timeline
This is a perfect example of a one sheet-eight page of content zine that is simple and beautiful (mental health focused)
Dear Sad Me mini comic
This is a class presentation by “the comic nurse” but it's not just about any specific book, it includes an interesting discussion about the role comics and graphic medicine have been playing in the development of health educational materials in gene...
MK Czerwiec: Drawing|Teaching|Healing: Graphic Medicine in Action presentation