Graphic Medicine
Information on the use of the comics medium to explore issues in healthcare.
COVID-19
Books in the Health Sciences Library
- COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology by Kendra Boileau (Editor); Rich Johnson (Editor)A collection of short comics about the COVID-19 pandemic. Diverse artists address disruptions in work, school, and family life as well as failures in public policy, racial biases, and systemic inequalities revealed by the pandemic
Webcomics
- Comics for GoodSelection of comics related to Covid-19.
- COVID-19 ComicsCollection of comics with reliable information on COVID-19: educational, vaccine-specific, ethics/social justice, patients, caregivers, historic, coping & humor, as well as a selection of non-comics resources.
- COVID-19 Comics: Ethics/Social JusticeA collection of webcomics on the ethical and social justice impacts of Covid-19
- Covid ChroniclesAn illustrated online feature chronicling personal accounts of life and death from the frontlines of COVID-19.
- Frontline Comics ProjectThese powerful stories from the COVID pandemic are collaborations between frontline workers and comic artists.
- Hay’khona Corona! Partnering with the United Nations to spread the word, not the virusIn partnership with the United Nations in South Africa, research communication specialists Jive Media Africa have produced a series of posters to grab attention and engage a broad range of public audiences. Share them in any one of 16 languages.
- How Seniors are Living with Covid-19Seniors describe their experiences with contracting Covid-19 and connect their experiences today with various periods in history.
- In/Vulnerable: Inequity in the Time of PandemicCaptures both the shared experience of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ways it has laid bare the stark disparities that shape our lives.
- Meet the New StrainsDiscusses how new strains of a virus develop and proliferate. Specifically references the mutation process of the Sars Cov-2 virus.
- Our Smallest Warriors, Our Strongest Medicine: Honoring Our Teachings during COVID-19Storybook series about Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island. Narratives portray communal efficacy, strength, and hope in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The Side Eye: Viruses vs EveryoneStatic images and .gif animation to show how the virus replicates and spreads and how the impact one person’s infection can have on an entire population.
- Vaccinated at the ball: A true story about trusted messengersA comics journalist tells the story of an effort to increase COVID vaccination rates in Chicago's House Ball community. Addresses the intersections of race, gender, and health. Also discusses the history of and reasons for distrust of the medical system among many members of the Black community
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