{"id":14620,"date":"2018-08-27T18:36:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T18:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/ner\/?p=14620"},"modified":"2018-08-27T18:37:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T18:37:52","slug":"2018-comics-and-medicine-conference-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2018\/08\/27\/2018-comics-and-medicine-conference-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Comics and Medicine Conference Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14621 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/ner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/08\/ComicsandMedConference-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Comics and Medicine Conference 2018 poster.\" width=\"272\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/08\/ComicsandMedConference-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/08\/ComicsandMedConference-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/08\/ComicsandMedConference.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Held this year in White River Junction, VT at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonstudies.org\/\">Center for Cartoon Studies<\/a> (CCS) and Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), the 9<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Comics in Medicine Conference brought together a mix of creators, medical professionals, librarians and others to discuss how graphic novels are being used by a wide array of professionals and artists to connect and educate patients, families, and the public on health topics.<\/p>\n<p>Many sessions were relevant to what I do at NNLM-NER, but here are my top three conference highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can comics help us share health data with community members? <a href=\"https:\/\/wearewyandotte.com\/\">We Are Wyandotte<\/a> (Kansas City, KS) believes that everyone should have access to data about their communities. And they created a comic without words to communicate information about health disparities to people with different reading levels and across languages. \u00a0Visit their site to <a href=\"https:\/\/wearewyandotte.com\/#getcomichomepage\">get your own copy of Redlining Parts 1 &amp; 2<\/a> and see how they did it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can telling the story of a traumatic event be therapeutic? The Center for Cartoon Studies partnered with the White River Junction VA to illustrate veterans\u2019 stories.\u00a0 At the conference, they previewed a second anthology focused on the experiences of female vets and discussed the process of creating the book. To learn more about this project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonstudies.org\/tag\/cartoonist-veteran-project\/\">visit the Cartoonist Veteran page on the CCS site<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can comics connect across language and cultural barriers? El viaje m\u00e1s caro\/The Most Expensive Journey is an illustrated series of personal stories from migrant dairy framers in Vermont that was designed to start conversations around isolation and mental health. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vermontfolklifecenter.org\/elviajemascaro-eng\/\">read the full comics in English or Spanish here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To try graphic medicine with your book club, community organization or staff, <a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/ner\/graphic-medicine-book-club-kits\">request a graphic medicine book club kit<\/a>.\u00a0 Kits contain six copies of the book, a discussion guide and topic-relevant health information from trusted sources such as MedlinePlus, the CDC, NIH and more.\u00a0 Kits are\u00a0<strong>free<\/strong>, so request one today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn more about graphic medicine and you\u2019re in Worcester, MA between September 10 and October 20, 2018, stop by the Lamar Soutter Library (University of Massachusetts-Medical School, 55 Lake Ave North, Worcester, MA 01655) to view the National Library of Medicine exhibit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/exhibition\/graphicmedicine\/index.html\"><em>Graphic Medicine: Ill Conceived and Well-Drawn<\/em><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/library.umassmed.edu\/news-events\/lsl-now\/graphic-med-exhibit-2018\">See the library\u2019s announcement<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Held this year in White River Junction, VT at the Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) and Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), the 9th Annual Comics in Medicine Conference brought together a mix of creators, medical professionals, librarians and others to discuss how graphic novels are being used by a wide array of professionals and artists&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2018\/08\/27\/2018-comics-and-medicine-conference-highlights\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,275],"tags":[248,257,265,108,110,192],"class_list":["post-14620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-graphic-medicine","tag-community-engagement","tag-community-of-interest","tag-graphic-medicine","tag-health-disparities","tag-health-literacy","tag-professional-development"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14620"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14626,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions\/14626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}