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They inject a human element into medicalised spaces, pushing back against data-driven, objective notions of the human condition.

From the blog ‘Mom’s Cancer’ to novellas about lupus to moving Instagram posts, comic artists are humanising illnesses.

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick  is a collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, the book includes eight of Hurston’s "lost" Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satirical humor, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston’s world. All are timeless clas...

Heartbeat Opera: Breathing Free $15 general public; free for UC Davis Students Breathing Free builds on Heartbeat Opera’s 2018 collaboration with 100 incarcerated singers in six prison choirs, part of a contemporary Fideliotold through the lens of Black Lives Matter. Ellen Forney: “Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me” March 1, 4 p.m., free The author of this year’s Campus Community Book Project, Forney shares a video presentation on her book, “Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me,” followed by a live question and answer session. Jeremy Rourke:...

BBC News Published image copyrightGemma Correll Comics are not just about superheroes. Emily Oomen meets the artists shaping graphic medicine - a genre focused on the experience of living with illness. Ellen Forney was in her twenties and working as a professional cartoonist when she stumbled into the world of graphic medicine. The artist had been working for one of Seattle's long-running newspapers The Stranger when, in 1998 and just before she turned 30, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She says the diagnosis "sank in like the sun had gone behind the clouds". Comics had always be...