So, I spent ages reading graphic novels and comics that I felt were relevant to medicine. My idea was that they might be of use as a resource for health professionals. We were all into comics as children, I'd read them through my teens-american underground commix, I was never into super-heroes, and, after hiatus of many years had started reading graphic novels and autobiographical art comics again some years back. Academics have been writing about graphic fiction for years; there is plenty of comics theory around, and I think I have read a good proportion of it, but no one in the anglophone countries had systematically studied medical narrative in comics, although certain scholars had reviewed selected graphic novels or looked at historic comics. In France Videlier and Piras had published La Sante dans les Bandes Dessinees in 1992 (sorry, francophones, I can't get this blog editor to show accents) but there is nothing equivalent in English that I know of.
It's late and I'm tired. Just wanted to get this blog off to a good start. Will add more shortly.
here is some more work of mine
