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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…

Ever since Professor Paul Solomon at Western Michigan University asked me to create a playlist for the week he taught my graphic memoir Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 in…

Hello all. I’m not going to say anything trite here to try to sum up 2020. Let’s just skip that part. You know. As fans of my work know, I’m…

post updated 8/25/20 It’s been a few years in the making, but I am excited to announce that Menopause: A Comic Treatment was August 17 from Penn State University Press. The…

This is not the spring any of us anticipated. All of my travel has been cancelled for the foreseeable future. My days have consisted of trying to get some exercise,…

Happy New Year! Hope your 2020 is off to a good start. Before it gets any further along, want to post an update and a look forward here in the…

Since my last post: The University of Chicago alumni magazine, “Medicine on the Midway”, did an article about the Graphic Medicine course I co-taught with Brian Callender this winter. It also…

Yesterday our Graphic Medicine class was given a curated tour of the University of Chicago Regenstein Library’s collection of graphic medicine and comics history. Librarian Sarah Wenzel was our expert…

It’s once again time for the annual Comic Nurse Year in Review. Here’s your worksheet, I’ll post some of my answers later this week.   The highlights of the past…

Welcome to what appears to be a seasonal update from the Comic Nurse studios. It’s been crazy busy but great, which seems to be my baseline. There is so much…

It was a great pleasure to be interviewed at Wisconsin public radio during a terrific visit to Madison! You can listen to the interview here. The interview was followed by…

Spring buds are poking up from the ground in Chicago. Days are slowly getting slightly warmer. (Not complaining! I hear a forecast for a fourth Noreaster storm tomorrow!) This past…

Since finishing and releasing Taking Turns, my work (and for a while my caregiving) is focused more specifically on end of life care, particularly for the elderly. I’m in the…

Just back from a conference that I have to post about because it was rich with information and guidance for my thinking about comics right now. The Vermont Folklife Center…

(Full disclosure: I’ve stolen that post title from one of my new favorite podcasts.) It’s been an amazing whirlwind of late spring/early summer book events and conferences followed by equally…

This early spring has been an amazing whirlwind of travel and speaking about Graphic Medicine and Taking Turns. Queers & Comics Conference in San Francisco – I moderated the queer health…

Last week I was interviewed by the wonderful Barbara Glickstein for her HealthCetera program on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City. The interview is now available online: Taking Turns: Stories…

Thursday night was the Chicago launch event for my book Taking Turns. I was honored to be hosted by the DePaul Art Museum and the Alphawood Foundation,  hosts of the…

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…