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Update: The Book is Done and Comic-Con!

Posted on July 20, 2016

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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 and in a few weeks I hope to receive copy edits and a new cover design. Then we’ll approve galleys in October for a March release. Here’s an image from the last day of production.

IMG_4771It’s kind of strange to go from having so much focus on one project for nearly fifteen years to not having anything to do for that project for a while. But I’m adjusting. And trying to catch up on other projects that have been on hold. And life.

Our 7th International Comics & Medicine conference in Dundee, Scotland was a huge success. On site organizer Andrew Godfrey did an amazing job of keeping all the many moving pieces in perfect place and all had an amazing time. A true highlight for me was introducing and spending some time with my comics idol, Lynda Barry.

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Later this week I’m off to my very first San Diego Comic-Con! The Graphic Medicine Manifesto has been nominated for an Eisner Award in the Scholarly/Academic category. Win or lose, it is very exciting to be in the company of these fantastic fellow nominees:

  • The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art, edited by  Frances Gateward and John Jennings (Rutgers)
  • Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan, edited by Mark McLelland et al. (University Press of Mississippi)
  • Graphic Medicine Manifesto, by MK Czerwiec et al. (Penn State University Press)
  • Superheroes on World Screens, edited by Rayna Denison and Rachel Mizsei-Ward (University Press of Mississippi)
  • Unflattening, by Nick Sousanis (Harvard University Press)

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And finally, in addition to teaching my seminar “Drawing Medicine” at Northwestern again this year, fall travel is shaping up to include a trip to Brown University in Rhode Island, a keynote at the Patho/Graphics workshop in Berlin, and a possible trip back to the UK for World AIDS Day. Lots of exciting Graphic Medicine work ahead!

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