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WOW! It’s been a busy spring/summer! I’ll recap a few highlights by category of activities. Teaching:  This spring quarter was the second year of teaching my favorite group of talented…

September brought the release of the 10th anniversary edition of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto.  What a thrill. We recorded a discussion with the authors, editor, and a moderator, you can…

Welcome to the new year! Here’s hoping 2026 gets better than it’s starting. It’s a rare sunny day in snowy Southwest Michigan so that’s a nice distraction from my suspicion…

This fall we are celebrating the launch of the 10th Anniversary edition of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto. This past summer was the 15th anniversary of the first graphic medicine conference….

Mary Norcol at the Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ wrote a story about Illinois Masonic’s HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371, in the context of proposed and actual cuts to HIV care and prevention that…

For the past year, I have been on a sabbatical from teaching to complete a dream project: a tribute to and appreciation of the amazing Lynda Barry. Created to celebrate…

Teachers often ask how to engage their students in critical close reading of graphic novels. Others have written on this as well, but my answer almost always seem to involve…

Highlights since my last update: Teaching – This past spring term I taught a fantastic new Graphic Medicine course at the University of Illinois in Chicago’s Biomedical Visualization program to…

Once again, it’s been a minute since posting. What have I been up to? Many things! Here are a few highlights of the year via photos.     A nice article…

One of my favorite exercises to do in my sketchbook and with students/workshop participants is body maps. My introduction to them was via my wonderful colleague Dana Walrath, at a…

The turn of the calendar year is always a reflective time for me, especially this year.  2022 was filled with many moments of joy yet also was unmooring in several…

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…

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…

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…

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…

An updated edition of my graphic memoir/oral history Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 is now out from Graphic Mundi. In this post, I’d like to discuss the…

Taking Turns, now out in a second edition from Graphic Mundi, was entirely hand drawn and lettered. I did this because Lynda Barry says that’s what we’re supposed to do….

In anticipation of the Graphic Mundi updated reprinting of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 in November, I am sharing parts of the book’s backstory. In this post, I’d like to…

In anticipation of the Graphic Mundi updated reprinting of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 in November, I am sharing parts of the book’s backstory. In this post, I’d like to…

The new imprint Graphic Mundi will be releasing an updated reprinting of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 in November. In preparation for that release, I’m going to do…