Comics Arts Conference Session #15: Life Lines: How the Healing Power of Graphic Medicine Contributes to Art, Science, and Medicine
On the panel was Sydney Heifler, Cody Christopherson, Naomi Volain, Ryan King and Joel Thurman. The panel was moderated by James Rohrer, who did an intro and explained what Graphic Medicine is. Among the topics discussed was how illustrations can be more accessible than text, how Previous Rubbish (by Kayla E., published by Fantagraphics) is powerful and is being used to help kids, feedback Sydney and Naomi got from their books, making the case for comics in psychology and therapy, using various books to explain comics potential and certain books like Binky Brown Meets the Holy Mary to show was is possible, they also said that some webcomics are very good too, they gave examples of certain storylines in DC comics that addressed medical issues, using art therapy, censorship in libraries and self-censorship being barriers to Graphic Medicine, how Graphic Medicine would ideally be used.
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