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CCS at Graphic Medicine Conference in Ireland

The Center for Cartoon Studies is heading to Ireland for the annual Graphic Medicine Conference. CCS president and co-founder, Michelle Ollie, along with several alumni and CCS fellows will be participating in the traveling conference. 

Cartoonist and comics librarian Natalie Norris ‘20 will discuss “Harnessing the Transformational Magic of Graphic Memoir to Process Trauma.” J.D. Lunt ‘16 will present, “Comics, Oral History, and Sharing the Magic of St. Dorothy’s Rest, the Oldest No Cost Health Camp in California.” Michelle Ollie will lead a design talk, “Using Design to Improve Accessibility.”

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Whit Taylor Joins CCS Faculty this Spring

Whit Taylor (Ghost Stories) is joining the faculty at The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) this spring as the facilitator of Visiting Artist Seminar. The course features weekly guests including the most celebrated cartoonists, children’s books authors, designers, writers, and designers. Guests share their creative process and professional pathways. In addition to lecturing at CCS as a previous visiting artist, Whit was also the keynote speaker at the International Comics and Medicine Conference in 2019 (see photo above). A big thanks to R. Sikoryak who facilitated the most recent fall term of Visiting Artist Seminar. His Constitution Illustrated was a top ten The New York Times Best Graphic Novels of 2020.

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For Anna Sellheim ’16 the act of making comics is therapeutic

Anna Sellheim ’16 has been spotlighted on Graphic Medicine, a website promoting the “use of comics in medical education and patient care.” Anna has publishing autobio comics about her mental health in a series called Everything’s Fine. Though they started as doodles in a sketchbook, she polished them up and drew them in color for some class assignments at CCS. Then she compiled them into small zines. These grew into the ongoing web comic. In the Graphic Medicine spotlight, she writes about how she got into comics and why she has continued creating her mental health–themed autobio comic.

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Visiting Artist: MK Czerwiec

MK Czerwiec, RN, MA, is the creator of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 (Penn State University Press, 2017), a co-author of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto (Penn State University Press, 2015), and editor of Menopause: A Comic Treatment. With Ian Williams, Matthew Noe, and Alice Jaggers, she manages graphicmedicine.org.

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MK Czerwiec at ArtisTree

Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 by MK Czerwiec

MK Czerwiec, 2019 CCS Applied Cartooning Fellow, will be talking about Graphic Medicine at ArtisTree on Saturday, October 12, at 3pm. In this interactive workshop, participants will be introduced to the field of graphic medicine, which integrates the medium of comics with topics of health, illness, caregiving, and disability. MK will lead several exercises exploring the many ways drawing and comics can enhance our processing of health-related experiences. This workshop will appeal to health care workers, authors, artists, academics, and fans of comics and medicine alike. Absolutely no prior experience with comics or drawing required! Preregistration is requested but not necessary.

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Graphic Medicine Call for Papers

The 10th Graphic Medicine conference will be in Brighton for 2019 and you can get involved by submitting a presentation proposal. The theme this year is queer graphic medicine—”refusing binaries and giving a voice to those who are usually silenced through not belonging.” Beyond the obvious themes of gender, sexuality, and intersexuality, the conference also explores other forms of personal, cultural, and political subversion.

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Next Up Visiting Artist: Georgia Webber

Georgia Webber is a cartoonist living in Toronto, where she is a freelance comics editor working with artists directly to improve their work, and the comics editor for carte blanche. Georgia is best known for her debut graphic memoir, Dumb: Living without a Voice (Fantagraphics, 2018), about living with a vocal disability. This difficult experience lead her to work as a cranial sacral therapist, a mediation facilitator, and as an improvising musician, blending elements of healthcare and body awareness with creative expression within constraints. She is hard at work on her next book project, Dark Whole, a journey through the concept and experience of trauma.

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Picturing Health

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Scaling Graphic Medicine: How We Collaborate

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Buy Comics, Prints, Books, Graphic Novels at the Comics and Medicine Marketplace

The 9th International Comics and Medicine Conference begins this Thursday!

Buy Comics, Prints, Books, Graphic Novels at the conference Marketplace!

  • Thursday, August 16th, 4-6pm
  • Friday, August 17th, 12noon-1:30pm

Location: Newberry Market, downtown White River Junction

 

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CARTOONING IN AN ANXIOUS AGE

Cartooning In An Anxious Age (pdf) is a free comic by Cara Bean on the act of drawing, which focuses your attention and intimately connects you with the generative act of creation. It’s an inspiring read.

Let's Talk About It: A Graphic Guide to Mental Health

Let's Talk About It: A Graphic Guide to Mental Health

Created for middle and high school students, Let’s Talk About It: A Graphic Guide To Mental Health is a lively and educational comic book that destigmatizes the conversation around mental health.

A 32-page comic on how our government works

This Is What Democracy Looks Like comic cover

Using the power of comics to teach teens about the way our government works This Is What Democracy Looks Like, A Graphic Guide To Governance is a 32-page comic book created by The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS). This short comic guide helps to bring democracy back to the hands of the people by explaining what democracy actually means and how the whole thing works. This guide will be a great jumping-off point to learn about our government.

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