
Wisconsin Public Radio appearance
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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(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…
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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…
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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: http://www.healthmediapolicy.com/2017/03/30/taking-turns-stories-from-hivaids-care-unit-371-a-graphic-memoir-by-mk-czrewiec/ Thank…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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The largest indoor display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt was in the summer of 1998 at Chicago’s Navy Pier.
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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…
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