Graphic Medicine

GRAPHIC NOVEL/GRAPHIC MEDICINE

THIS MIGHT HURT A LITTLE, What do we do when we’ve lost a sense of belonging? We seek a new context. The main character got cancer 20 years ago and then got better. And every day that she wakes up she thinks “it’s a great day to not be dead.” She’s the 1 in 52 people who got cancer, the 68% who survived, the 16.2 out of 1000 married people who got divorced, the 10% of women who can’t have kids, and is 1 of the 21,575,000 singles online right now looking for a match. It’s not the life that she had planned. We’ve all faced odds and if you haven’t yet, odds are that you probably will in your lifetime, and despite the odds, in the meantime we are all seeking more, but more of what? More life. The story takes place over an endless summer of eternal optimism in believing that finding that special someone is just a numbers game but through the scores of single potential matches that she meets online dating, her perspective shifts from eternal optimism - to toxic optimism - to cruel optimism. It becomes increasingly evident that surviving cancer is not why everything happens for a reason.

DIARY COMICS/GRAPHIC MEDICINE

Diary Comics, Drawn to Life is an exploration into the world of diary comics, a facet of autobiographical storytelling. Diary comics are both integrated and integral to a person’s existence; it is drawn to action, connection, and being. Readers will gain an appreciation for this groundbreaking category of graphic medicine and its role in capturing the human experience.

Graphic medicine is defined as the intersection between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare (Czerwiec, 2015) and diary comics is a subset of graphic medicine. Diary comics is a form of daily or almost daily sequential visual documentation which combines the power of comics and the trusted intimate act of diary writing

PEOPLE CARE/GRAPHIC MEDICINE

Graphic Medicine, Drawn to Well Being introducing the premeire of the People Care Award Gallery at the Military School Hospital, DR. ADB