How to Get Started Making Comics
I’m always saying, “We can all draw” and claiming that we all have what it takes to make comics. I honestly believe this is true. My chapter in the Graphic Medicine…
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MK Czerwiec, RN, MA is a nurse who uses comics to contemplate the complexities of illness and caregiving.
MK has been making comics under the pseudonym Comic Nurse since 2000. In addition to lecturing, teaching and comic-making, she co-runs GraphicMedicine.org, a website devoted to the intersection of comics and health.
Menopause: A Comic Treatment
“Often informative, sometimes moving, and ambitious in its frank talk about what is oddly taboo: an inevitable experience for half of humanity.” - Publishers Weekly
WINNER OF TWO EISNER AWARDS!
Graphic Medicine Manifesto
Proud to be a co-author of the Eisner Award nominated Graphic Medicine Manifesto.
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Workshop Exercise #1: The 4-Panel Survival Comic
Some comics are destined to go on your Instagram, your Twitter, in an academic article, maybe even in a book someday. That is NOT this comic. This comic is intended…
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Taking Turns New Introduction Comic
In preparation for some spring speaking events, including a live presentation at SXSW on Monday, I illustrated part of the introduction to the new edition of Taking Turns published in…
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2021 in Review
Fans of the site know I have done this every year for a very log time. Feel free to give it a try! The highlights of the past year…
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Translating Research Outcomes into Action Posters
One of the great applications of graphic medicine (comics in healthcare) is as a tool to make research outcomes come alive. (You can read more from me on that topic…
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