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Exploring the interaction between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare. Episodes include conversations with comic authors, academics and healthcarers, plus select presentations from our international Comics
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A Conversation with Wendy MacNaughton about “How To Say Goodbye” from 2023-08-16T19:23:14
We are thrilled to welcome a very special guest to the graphic medicine podcast. Wendy MacNaughton is a graphic journalist and social worker. If the name doesn’t instantly ring a bell for you, onc...
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Exciting Podcast News! from 2023-02-21T23:18:35
Exciting Podcast News Super short episode teasing upcoming changes. We want to know what you think!
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Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars Interview from 2022-12-22T21:42:35
MK Czerwiec interviews Rick Louis and Lara Antal on their collaboration creating Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars. Rick Louis allows the reader a look into his experiences having a child with Tay...
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Look Again Discussion with Elizabeth Trembley from 2022-11-09T02:48:32
Look Again Episode Alice Jaggers talks with Elizabeth Trembley about her recent book, Look Again. Her memoir follows her various versions of her experience finding a dead body in the woods and the ...
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Ripple Effects Discussion about Invisible Disability, Diabetes, and Community from 2022-08-19T01:16:48
RippleEffectsInterview Alice Jaggers talks with Jordan Hart, Barbra Dillon and Dr. Theresa Rojas about Ripple Effects. Jordan Hart is a comics creator with many other comics under his belt. This on...
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The Silent Why Podcast interviews Carol Tyler about grief from 2022-07-18T01:07:24
The Silent Why podcast is on a mission to talk about loss and grief and are looking for 101 different types of loss, chatting to people who have been through them to see if it’s possible to f...
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Mom Milestones: An Interview with Grace Farris from 2022-05-21T14:42:32
FarrisInterview41222 Alice Jaggers interviews Grace Farris on her new book, Mom Milestones: The True Story of the First Seven Years. The book takes the idea of baby milestones and turns it on its h...
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2021 Year in Review from 2022-01-04T19:54:03
2021 Year in Review episode Alice Jaggers is joined by Ebru Ustundag and MK Czerwiec in a conversation about what happened in the graphic medicine community in 2021 and a sneak preview of 2022. For...
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Interview with MK Czerwiec from 2021-12-21T21:31:31
In this episode, Alice Jaggers discusses the re-release of Taking Turns with creator MK Czerwiec. CzerwiecInterview11-29-21
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Conversation with Maria Photinakis from 2021-09-07T15:54:33
Maria Photinakis talks to me, Alice Jaggers, about making comics during COVID and after the death of her father and about parenting as a cartoonist. We discuss her works, Extraordinary Times volume...
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Coma: Interview with Zara Slattery from 2021-05-01T17:00:12
Ian Williams talks with Zara Slattery, whose book Coma comes out May 13, 2021 in the UK from publisher Myriad Editions and September 14, 2021 in the US. The book chronicles her experience with an i...
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Touch Is Really Strange: Interview with Steve Haines from 2021-04-17T22:11:47
Steve Haines together with artist Sophie Standing have created the …Is Really Strange series. The most recent is Touch Is Really Strange coming out April 21, 2021. Ian Williams talks with Steve Hai...
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A Conversation with Kevin Wolf, Graphic Medicine Reviews Editor from 2021-03-30T23:20
Kevin Wolf has been the Graphic Medicine Reviews Editor since 2020. He is a health actuary and has been writing reviews for the graphic medicine website since 2016. Kevin talks with me. Alice Jagge...
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Launching Graphic Mundi with Kendra Boileau! from 2021-02-17T21:19:29
Kendra Boileau is the Publisher of Graphic Mundi and the Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief of Penn State University Press. She developed the Graphic Medicine line of graphic novels for PSU Pre...
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Best of Graphic Medicine 2020 from 2020-12-11T20:30:16
In this month’s episode, MK talks with a panel of guests about the best Graphic Medicine of 2020. The conversation begins with Shelley Wall and Michael Green discussing their article in the J...
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Interview with Kimiko Tobimatsu and Keet Geniza on Kimiko Does Cancer from 2020-10-23T20:58:32
In this episode, MK Czerwiec interviews Kimiko Tobimatsu and Keet Geniza about their recent book, Kimiko Does Cancer. They discuss working on the book during a pandemic, what it was like to work wi...
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Graphic Medicine 2019 Year End Review from 2019-12-31T14:43:40
In this episode, Susan Squier and MK Czerwiec chat about Graphic Medicine in 2019 and what they look forward to 2020. Links below to what we discuss and much more we didn’t have time to men...
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2019 Conference Keynote: Dr. Meg-John Barker from 2019-08-19T18:41:52
Welcome to the first of two keynote addresses from the 2019 Graphic Medicine conference, the theme of which was, “Queerying Graphic Medicine: Paradigms, Power, and Practice.” Meg-John Barker’...
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Reconciling the Public and Private in Health Comics with Whit Taylor from 2019-02-18T16:14:06
The episode opens with Alice Jaggers and host MK Czerwiec discussing Graphic Medicine News. That segment is followed by Whit Taylor‘s keynote address from the 2018 Comics & Medicine conference ...
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Susan Squier 2018 Conference Keynote from 2019-01-12T21:05:03
This month’s episode features Susan Squier’s full keynote from this year’s Graphic Medicine conference at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Her talk is titled “...
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2018 Year in Review from 2018-12-20T15:16:09
In this last GM podcast episode of 2018, Matthew Noe and MK Czerwiec discuss the Graphic Medicine year in review and they look forward to 2019. Listen to the episode to hear our picks for notable b...
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Mental Health Comics from 2018-12-07T21:04:47
This month’s episode features a recording of the Mental Health Comics Panel from MICE 2018,Moderated by A. David Lewis, MCPHS University. Panelists include: Lucy Bellwood – 100 Demon Dialogues, Kev...
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A Conversation with Alice Jaggers from 2018-10-10T13:42:16
In this month’s episode, we hear from Alice Jaggers, medical librarian and new addition to the website management team. We learn about how she got involved with Graphic Medicine, what she presented...
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July Podcast: Graphic Medicine at the American Library Association from 2018-07-26T22:45:42
On this month’s episode, Matthew and MK recap meeting up at the American Library Association conference in New Orleans. Download episode.
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Ellen Forney from 2018-06-09T19:57:31
The June episode of the podcast features Graphic Medicine news with Matthew Noe and an interview with Ellen Forney about her follow up to Marbles, Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life...
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Graphic Reproduction from 2018-05-04T23:41:16
In this episode, an interview with Jenell Johnson, editor of the latest book in the Penn State University Press Graphic Medicine series, Graphic Reproduction. Also Graphic Medicine news with Matthe...
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Director of the National Library of Medicine, Patricia Brennan from 2018-03-14T17:08:46
It was my great pleasure to have the opportunity to speak with Dr. Patricia Brennan, the first nurse and first woman to serve as Director of the National Library of Medicine. We discuss graphic med...
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Hillary Chute on Why Illness and Disability? from 2018-01-13T19:38:28
2017 Seattle conference keynote Hillary Chute discusses comics in the area of illness and disability. This talk is based on a chapter of her new book Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere. Dow...
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Introduction to Graphic Medicine from 2017-09-30T00:00:57
In this episode, the guy who coined the term “Graphic Medicine” describes to us what it has become. Enjoy Ian Williams’ talk to the staff of the Wellcome Trust Library in London. ...
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Seattle Conference Opening Night from 2017-07-06T01:41:26
Welcome to a new season of the Graphic Medicine Podcast! On today’s show, audio from the opening night of the Seattle Comics & Medicine conference, Thursday June 15. You will hear from three sp...
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Keeper of the Clouds and Seattle 2017 from 2017-06-04T02:59:56
In this new episode of the Graphic Medicine Podcast, we hear from the creative team behind the wonderful graphic medicine narrative “Keeper of the Clouds” – writer Liza Futerman and illustrator Evi...
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An Interview with Tyler Page about Raised on Ritalin from 2017-01-29T01:00:05
This episode features a conversation with Tyler Page, creator of Raised on Ritalin: A Personal Story of ADHD, Medication, and Modern Psychiatry. Download episode.
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More Doctors Making Comics! from 2016-10-03T02:51:12
My guests on this episode are Monica Lalanda, an emergency room physician from Spain, and Muna AlJawad, a geriatrician from Brighton, UK. Both of them are making and using comics in their medical p...
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Doctors Making Comics from 2016-09-21T23:23:58
On this week’s show, two doctors making comics. First up is an interview with Carlo Jose San Juan, the creator of Callous Comics, a comic strip from the Philippines that tells the story of a doctor...
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HIV Disclosure Comics from 2016-08-26T17:00:37
The Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS) is a longitudinal cohort study investigating the long-term effects of HIV infection and ARV (antiretroviral) medications in children and young adults who...
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Sima Elizabeth Shefrin&Ian Williams from 2016-05-02T16:49:51
Canadian Sima Elizabeth Shefrin is a fabric artist and presenter from the 2015 Comics & Medicine conference. Her recently published book, Embroidered Cancer Comics, is a series of embroidered ...
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Elizabeth Hewitt and Ann Fox from 2016-03-24T17:03:40
In this week’s podcast, Elizabeth Hewitt from the Ohio State University presents “Incurable Time: The Graphic Temporalities of Autoimmune Disease.” Her talk was recorded at our 20...
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HIV/AIDS Memoirs and Rosalee Lightning from 2016-03-08T16:51:59
In this episode, we feature Jordana Greenblatt’s presentation from the 2015 Comics & Medicine conference, titled “Internal and External Spaces of Threat and Dissolution: HIV/AIDS Gr...
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Meaning Making Through Drawing and Comics from 2016-02-07T22:29:26
In this week’s Graphic Medicine podcast, the first in a series, we’ll hear two lightning presentations from the 2015 Comics & Medicine conference in Riverside, California. Both presentations di...
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Leah Eisenberg on Visualizing Biobanking from 2016-01-24T19:45:40
This week on the graphic medicine podcast, Leah Eisenberg talks about her work as a lawyer and bioethicist using comics to help make biobank more comprehensible and consent to bio banking more mean...
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Nye Wright from 2016-01-18T16:26:18
This week I speak with Nye Wright, creator of “Things To Do In A Trailer Park When You Are 29 And Unemployed” which was published in North America this month. Be sure to join a Twitter ...
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The Gag Reflex: Representations of Medicine in New Yorker Magazine Cartoons from 2015-12-19T22:53:19
In this entertaining, reflective, and insightful talk from his workshop at the 2105 Comics & Medicine conference, doctor and New Yorker staff cartoonist Ben Schwartz tracks the history of docto...
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My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson’s from 2015-12-13T20:29:07
This week on the Graphic Medicine Podcast: award winning Alaska cartoonist Peter Dunlap-Shohl talks about his new graphic memoir, My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson’s. For my What A...
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Dana Walrath: Cultural Spaces, Comics, and Contested Memories from 2015-12-04T19:45:28
Dana Walrath is a medical anthropologist, author, and artist. Her first book, Aliceheimer’s, will be published in the US by Penn State University Press. In this talk, titled “Cultural Spaces, Comic...
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Carol Tyler: Brining It All Back Home from 2015-11-26T19:22:44
In this week’s Graphic Medicine Podcast, Carol Tyler’s keynote address from the Graphic Medicine 2015 conference in Riverside, California. The talk is titled “Bringing It All Back...
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Booster Shot Comics Take on Pain from 2015-11-13T16:46:53
In this week’s episode, Alex Thomas and Gary Ashwal, the team behind Booster Shot Comics, discuss their comic intended to help both parents assess and treat pediatric pain and kids learn to e...
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Tyler Page: Raised on Ritalin from 2015-11-08T18:41:53
This week’s episode features Tyler Page and his presentation from the 2015 Comics & Medicine conference, “Raised on Ritalin.” Keep an eye on your screen as Tyler shared his ma...
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Jared Gardner: Beyond Metaphor from 2015-10-30T15:01:24
This week’s episode features Jared Gardner’s keynote address, “Beyond Metaphor” from the 2015 Comics & Medicine conference in Riverside. Jared Gardner is introduced by Michael Green. On W...
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Graphic Medicine Manifesto Panel Discussion from 2015-10-23T13:45:16
This week on the podcast, the 2015 Comics & Medicine conferences’s opening night panel discussion of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto with authors Susan Squier, MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, M...
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Brian Fies’s 2015 Riverside Keynote from 2015-10-15T21:03:07
This week’s episode features the first keynote address, delivered by Brian Fies, from the 2015 Comics & Medicine conference in Riverside, California. For links mentioned in the podcast, s...
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The Story of My Tits: An interview with Jennifer Hayden from 2015-10-08T16:09:35
The first episode of our new season, featuring Graphic Medicine news, an interview with Jennifer Hayden, and “What Are You Reading?!” with guest Michael Green. The Graphic Medicine Podc...
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Arthur Frank: When Bodies Need Stories in Pictures from 2015-07-10T11:48:22
Sociologist Arthur Frank delivers the Sue Eckstein Memorial keynote address at the 2014 Comics & Medicine conference on the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus. This address was sponsored by the Brigh...
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Juliet McMullin from 2015-07-03T19:48:04
MK Czerwiec interviews the hostess of the 2015 Comics & Medicine conference, Juliet McMullin. Juliet talks about how she started working with comics, how Brian Fies’s Mom’s Cancer b...
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The Bad Doctor on The Catskill Review of Books from 2015-04-19T14:03:09
Ian Williams (The Bad Doctor) talks with Ian Williams (of The Catskill Review of Books, no relation) about the American release of The Bad Doctor, as well as the Penn State University Press Graphic...
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Simon Moreton from 2014-12-12T15:23:31
The final podcast out of the 2013 Brighton Comics & Medicine conference is now available. This episode features Simon Moreton’s talk, “Toward a Different Way of Looking” in wh...
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From Brighton: Panel 4A: Whose Story Is It? from 2014-07-30T21:45:45
Better late than never: From the 2013 Brighton Comics & Medicine conference comes Panel 4A: Who’s Story Is It? First up is writer and illustrator Peaco Todd with her talk, “Whose S...
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The Bad Doctor on the BBC from 2014-07-10T14:09:22
Ian Williams was interviewed for the BBC’s World Update about his new graphic novel The Bad Doctor (Myriad Editions). Download.
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A Conversation with MK Czerwiec from 2014-05-29T21:43:29
You may have noticed an interruption in the podcasting of presentations from Brighton. This has been due to both poor audio quality and time constraints. Hoping to get a few more of those presentat...
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Mita Mahato: These Frames Are Hiding Places from 2014-03-12T19:48:46
In an interruption of the lectures from Brighton, this week we feature Mita Mahato of the University of Puget Sound. Dr. Mahato recently delivered a lecture at the University of California at River...
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Brighton Panel 2C: Transformations: Therapy/Not Therapy from 2014-02-19T13:17:08
Panel 2C from the 2013 Comics & Medicine panel in Brighton brings us four presentations that relate to the theme of therapy. You can listen to the panel at the audio-only link below. Podcasts f...
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Alex Thomas & Gary Ashwal of Booster Shot Comics from 2013-11-14T15:57:38
Alex Thomas and Gary Ashwal are the creators of Iggy & The Inhalers. Their collaborative work helps kids (and adults) learn about the pathophysiology of asthma and how to properly use their inh...
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From Brighton, Panel 2A: Reflection and Practitioner Research from 2013-11-04T22:00:41
Panel 2A: Reflection and Practitioner Research, from this past summer’s Graphic Medicine conference in Brighton. The panel was chaired by Rachel Robinson. First up is the talk, “Comics,...
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Nicola Streeten’s 2013 Comics & Medicine Keynote Address from 2013-09-16T21:46:35
This week’s podcast is Nicola Streeten’s keynote address from the 2013 Comics & Medicine conference in Brighton, England. Nicola’s talk is titled, “Damed if you do, doom...
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