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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…

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: http://www.healthmediapolicy.com/2017/03/30/taking-turns-stories-from-hivaids-care-unit-371-a-graphic-memoir-by-mk-czrewiec/   Thank…

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…

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…