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Just back from an absolutely terrific mini-residency at Duke University. I spoke in four classrooms:     Medical Ethics and End of Life Care – we discussed how comics can…

Wednesday March 15th was book release day for Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. I was grateful to spend the day with Ann Fox at Davidson College, outside of Charlotte,…

It’s been mild and lovely here in the Midwest this weekend and it’s put many of us in the mind of spring. This was Lake Michigan yesterday, on the Michigan…

It’s been quite a week. The advance copies of the book have arrived to the publisher, Penn State University Press, and they sent me one. It is gorgeous. Thrilling. Like…

Penn State University Press, publisher of the Graphic Medicine series in which my book will appear in March of 2017, has recently redesigned their website to celebrate 30 years in…

After an intense, three-week marathon editing session in May, I finally finished my book, Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. The files are off to Penn State Press…

artwork by Andrew Godfrey The theme of this year’s Comics & Medicine conference in Dundee, Scotland is “Stages & Pages.” We aim to look at performance and/in graphic medicine from…

Just back from a fantastic trip to Galveston, TX. Galveston is a barrier island off the coast of Texas, in the Gulf of Mexico, about an hour outside of Houston….

The largest indoor display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt was in the summer of 1998 at Chicago’s Navy Pier.     

Very excited that yesterday a positive review of Ian Willams’s The Bad Doctor and the Graphic Medicine Manifesto appeared in the New York Times Science section. Here’s how the print…

Anyone missing the Photo of the Week? If that’s you, head over to Instagram and follow mkczerwiec. In an attempt to focus intently on 5 pages per week for my…

The Comic Nurse studio is very excited to announce publication of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto by Penn State University Press! Buy your copy here. Because you are a super fan of…

  As I say above, I truly enjoyed a world-class event in my own backyard Tuesday. Northeastern Illinois’ Visiting Writers Series hosted a graphic novelist panel this year and it…

I’m a total process nerd. As much info as I share here about how I make my comics, I soak up this same level of detail from anyone else who…

This month’s Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation guest comic blog post is done in collaboration with CFI cartoonist Nic Breutzman. It looks at concrete reasons and ways comics can be…

February 1st is Hourly Comic Day! Here’s the story, according to awesome cartoonist Sarah McIntyre: 1. Draw a comic for every hour you’re awake. 2. Load it onto your blog….

Excited to share that I’ve been asked to do a monthly post in comic form for the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation blog. Followers may remember that in 2013 Michael…

A few years ago around this time I stumbled on some Girl Scout badges for sale at a local junk shop. Thinking about them made me wonder what badges I…