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Kuniyoshi at the RA Went down to London yesterday to see the Kuniyoshi exhibition at the Royal Academy. It is closing in this weekend. It was well worth the trip. I love japanese woodblock prints (as well as japanese ceramics, […]
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Going back to comics: The first graphic novel with a medical theme that I came across was Cancer Vixen, by Marissa Marchetto. See my review of it at www.graphicmedicine.org . I liked the autobiographical form of the book, and felt […]
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I've just got home from a weekend at the Hay Festival and feeling inspired to do some writing. With limited time before bed, I'm torn between adding a post here, or doing some drawing. The blog wins, but mainly through […]
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So… I started to read loads of graphic novels and trawled comics sites and shops for anything that could conceivably be of medical relevance. I wanted to see whether reading these works gave some insight into the situations of experiences […]
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I'm based in North Wales and I'm a painter and printmaker. My work to date has been generally based on the landscape. It is abstracted, although it contains narrative elements. I'm a member of the Regional Print Centre in Wrexham. […]
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OK. Comics… I'm getting there I'd been exhibiting my work for several years, landscape based, abstracted paintings and intaglio prints, and avoiding any overt medical subject matter, for fear of it coming out all… ewww, yucky, sentimental, melodramatic. I felt […]
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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 […]