Graphic Medicine

The top resource for keeping up to date on all this graphic medicine: comics, podcasts, blogs, conferences, and more.

El papel de los cómics, las novelas gráficas y las ilustraciones en el mundo sanitario

NLM provides a comprehensive introduction to graphic medicine, including instructional and programming resources.

"MK Czerwiec, RN, MA is a nurse who uses comics to contemplate the complexities of illness and caregiving.
She is the Artist-in-Residence at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and a Senior Fellow of the George Washington School of Nursing Center for Health Policy & Media Engagement. MK has been making comics under the pseudonym Comic Nurse since 2000. She co-runs GraphicMedicine.org, a website devoted to the intersection of comics and health."

Podcast by the creators of GraphicMedicine.org

The Nib is a daily publication devoted to publishing and promoting political and non-fiction comics. We run journalism, essays, memoir and satire about what is going down in the world, all in comics form, the best medium. It was founded in 2013.

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Seven individual lesson plans for college and health professional students:
1. Introduction to Graphic Storytelling
2. Stories of Illness, the Patient's Experience
3. Exploring Normalcy, Disability, Stigmatization, and Bias Through Graphic Medicine
4. Caring for Others—The Perspective of Family Members
5. Health Care Through the Eyes of the Clinician
6. The Medical Student's Experience
7. Comics-Making Project