Drawing Vulnerability
April 3: "Form, Function and Fiction in my Comics" | Orijit Sen
April 5: "Threads from the Refugee Crisis" | Kate Evans
April 10: "Drawing Famine in the Time of Pandemic" | Argha Manna
April 17: Finding Health in Vulnerability: Graphic Medicine and Beyond
Susan Squier
Works Cited
Safdar Ahmed. “Battle with Crohn’s Disease.” SICK exhibition. 27 October 2017-4 March 2018, An exhibition by the PathoGraphics research group, Freie Universität, Berlin, at the Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité.
___________. Still Alive: Graphic Reportage from Australia’s Immigration Detention System. (Victoria, Australia: Fantagraphics, 2022)
Gerry Alanguilan. Elmer (San Jose, CA: SLG Publishing, 2010).
Marek Bennett, Julia Grand Doucet, Andy Kolovos, & Teresa Mares, eds. The Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont Drawn by New England Cartoonists (Burlington, Vt.: Vermont Folklife Center, 2021.)
Brand A, Gao L, Hamann A, Crayen C, Brand H, Squier SM, Stangl K, Kendel F, Stangl V. “Medical Graphic Narratives to Improve Patient Comprehension and Periprocedural Anxiety Before Coronary Angiography and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Randomized Trial.” Ann Intern Med. 2019 Apr 16;170(8):579-581. doi: 10.7326/M18-2976. Epub 2019 Apr 9. PMID: 30959523.
Ally Brosh. Hyperbole and a Half (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013).
Maureen Burdock and Joanne Regulska. “The Right to Breathe,” in Kendra Boileau and Rich Johnson. The Covid Chronicles (University Park: Graphic Mundi, 2021).
Judith Butler. “Precarious Life, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Cohabitation.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. 26 (No. 2), 2012, 134-151.
Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, and Leticia Sabsay, eds. Vulnerability in Resistance (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2016): 1.
Czerwiec, et. al. Graphic Medicine Manifesto. (University Park: Penn State Press, 2015).
M.K. Czerwiec. Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. (University Park: Penn State Press, 2017).
Will Eisner. “The Expressive Anatomy of Comics.” Comics and Sequential Art. 102. (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008).
Ellen Forney. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me. (New York: Gotham Books, 2012).
Scott F. Gilbert and Albert I. Tauber. “Rethinking Individuality: The Dialectics of the Holobiont.” Biol Philos (2016) 31:839–853 DOI 10.1007/s10539-016-9541-3.
Michael Green, Kimberly Myers, and Danny R. George. “The Comics Revealing Medical School’s Hidden Flaws and Hard Lessons,” The Atlantic March 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/03/medical-humanities/520623/
Jamie Hall, Rachel Morris, and Edward Hall. Parasites! (Glasgow: The Wellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology, 2010.) https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/wcip/engage/publicengagement/wcipcomics/
Meredith Li-Vollmer and Mita Mahato. “Climate Changes Health” in Meredith Li-Vollmer, Graphic Public Health. (University Park: Penn State Press, 2022), 10-14.
Scott McCloud. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. (New York: HarperPerennial, 1993).
Susan Squier and Irmela Marei Kruger-Fürhoff. PathoGraphics: Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community. (University Park: The Penn State University Press, 2022).
NIH VideoCast – COVID Comics: Decentering White Narratives in Graphic Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic
https://videocast.nih.gov/
April 28: Vulnerability as Identity: Precarious self-representation in graphic narratives | María Porras Sánchez
References
Butler, Judith. Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? Verso, 2009.
Chute, Hillary L. Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form. Harvard UP, 2016.
Claviez, Thomas, ed. 2016. The Common Growl: Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community. New
York: Fordham University Press.
Davies, Dominic, and Candida Rifkind. Documenting Trauma: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories
& Graphic Reportage in Comics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Halberstam, Jack. 2018. Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability. Oakland, CA:
University of California Press.
Nabizadeh, Golner. Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels. Routledge, 2020.
Nayar, Pramod K. The Human Rights Graphic Novel: Drawing it Just Right. Routledge, 2021.
Romero-Jódar, Andrés. The Trauma Graphic Novel. Routledge, 2017.
Whitlock, Gillian. “Autographics: The Seeing ‘I’ of the Comics.” MFS Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 52,
no. 4, 2006, pp. 965–979.