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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…

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…

This week I drove to Cincinnati, OH (and across the river to Covington, KY) to see Carol Tyler give her talk, “Graphic Emotion: Weighted Words and Moving Marks”  at the…

Sunday September 14 was the second day of the 20th anniversary of SPX, the Small Press Expo. The first panel of the day, “Stories of Girlhood,” was expertly moderated by…

Last weekend I travelled to Washington, DC to attend the 20th Anniversary Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD. The star-studded presenter lineup was too good to resist! SPX badge by…