'Graphic medicine': how autobiographical comics artists are changing our understanding of illness
From the blog ‘Mom’s Cancer’ to novellas about lupus to moving Instagram posts, comic artists are humanising illnesses.
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From the blog ‘Mom’s Cancer’ to novellas about lupus to moving Instagram posts, comic artists are humanising illnesses.
A reporter sketches his ‘Toxic Youth’ working in a New Hampshire factory Cate McQuaid © Provided by The Boston Globe An illustration by Dana Jennings in one of his sketchbooks of memories of working with his father at Kingston Steel Drum in New Hampshire, a factory that cleaned 55-gallon industrial steel containers, at his home in Montclair, N.J. Jennings and his father continue to battle a host of illnesses decades after working at the factory, which became one of the EPA’s Superfund hazardous-waste sites. “At the factory, it seemed like we worked under a black sun...