CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite the submission of a wide variety of abstracts focusing on health, medicine, and comics in any form (e.g. graphic novels and memoir, comic strips, manga, mini comics, web comics) that examine or showcase topics including, but not limited to:

• the use of comics and cartooning for clinical interventions and teaching
• navigating institutional headwinds
• addressing time constraints to creative work
• professional development and engagement with graphic medicine
• access to funding sources
• establishing productive collaborative relationships
• planning and completing graphic medicine projects
• engaging communities of care
• work in the context of disability justice and advocacy
• representing the ‘work’ of bodies with relation to diagnosis and treatment
• unseen labor in treatment and care
• spaces of creative production
• creative labor and the tools of graphic medicine
• outcome and efficacy research

For details on CFP, click here.

PROGRAM FORMAT

• Panels and presentations by scholars and creators
• Browsing The Schulz Library collection graphic novel collection
• Informal “round table” small-group discussions
• Hands on workshops with The Center for Cartoon Studies faculty
• Presentation Basics workshop focused on pictorial storytelling
• Exhibits

ABOUT Graphic Medicine

For more information about Graphic Medicine, to see recent conference programming, visit: graphicmedicine.org