October 8, 2019
Event date: –
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.
Reviews of Taking Turns
- “The author does an excellent job of illustrating how one can tell their own story without reducing others who shared in the experience to one-dimensional ‘supporting characters’ . . . “—Dr. Devlyn McCreight on Graphic Medicine
- “I know from talking to MK while she worked on her book that Taking Turns is primarily intended as an oral history of Unit 371 and the AIDS crisis, captured while memories are still fresh but with the perspective of time. MK needed to record these stories before they faded away. At that, she succeeds tremendously.”—Brian Fies, creator of Mom’s Cancer
- “I cannot get over how powerful the use of the comic medium was for this book.”—James Sabata, creator of Fat Camp
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