Graphic Medicine International Collective (#GraphMed2026)
@graphicmedicine
Graphic Medicine is the intersection of the discourse of healthcare and the medium of comics. Home of the Graphic Medicine International Collective nonprofit. Account currently managed by Matthew Noe
Burns Scholars, Faye Hanest and Sal Marx at #GraphMed2026! More about the scholarship here: www.graphicmedicine.org/announcing-t...
#GraphMed2026 may be wrapping up, but y'all, do we have news for you! We are thrilled to share that #GraphMed2027, The Body and the Stories It Tells, will take place in Bologna, Italy from June 10 - 12, 2027, hosted by our wonderful friends at Graphic Medicine Italia!
For outstanding educational graphic medicine, the award goes to... IT’S A JOURNEY: A Graphic Medicine Exploration of Endometriosis and Gender Diversity by Asiel (illustration, cover design, script) and Dr. M. Giacomozzi (script) from Treat it Queer and Spaghetti Publishing
For outstanding long-form graphic medicine, the award goes to... Hello Sunshine by Keezy Young, published by LB Ink (an imprint of Little, Brown & Company)
For outstanding short-form graphic medicine, the award goes to... What Have We Lost? Infertility, Miscarriage, and Disenfranchised Grief by Shawn Forde, published by Graphic Medicine Review (a publication of UMass Medical School)
The Graphic Medicine International Collective is thrilled to announce the winners of this year's Graphic Medicine awards for Outstanding Work of Graphic Medicine! #GraphMed2026 #GraphicMedicine #GMICAwards
Special thank you to all of our conference volunteers (running around in those bright yellow shirts!) who've done an amazing job with tech, wayfinding, and so much more. Conferences are a huge undertaking and can only succeed without this kind of dedicated care. 🙏
We want to thank all of our #GraphMed2026 sponsors, who helped make this great conference possible! Find them on the conference program and our website and please seek out their offerings today and in the future.
Meredith participated in our Frontline Comics Project with her COVID experience story, Toxic Excellence, co-created with Hatiye Garip and facilitated by Ebru Ustundag See the comic, and all our frontline comics, freely online at www.frontlinecomicsproject.org/comics/toxic... #GraphMed2026
Meredith's fantastic, award winning book, Graphic Public Health, is available now from @psupress.bsky.social Graphic Medicine Series! www.psupress.org/books/titles... #GraphMed2026
Our second #GraphMed2026 keynote is the incomparable Dr. Meredith Li-Vollmer, discussing pressures in public health and where graphic public health can help! 🙏
GMIC Co-Chairs Ebru and Ben welcome us to the final day of #GraphMed2026!
Facilitators: Ellen Forney and Alex Thomas facilitating the workshop Medical Information Under Pressure: A Workshop on Best Practices for Integrating Scientific Information into Graphic Medicine #GraphMed2026
The Peter James Burns Scholarship fund was created to support artists and scholars working in Graphic Medicine and fund their presence at our annual conference. GMIC is thrilled to share this year’s scholars: Annabel Anyang Faye Harnest Sal Marx #GraphMed2026
You can pre-order his upcoming book, coming from @graphicmundi.bsky.social, this fall! www.graphicmundi.org/books/978-1-...
Kicking off with our first keynote, Dr. Nathan Gray! #GraphMed2026
Registration is ready for you and we are excited for an amazing day of graphic medicine! (GMIC's new treasurer @adlewis.bsky.social modeling a conference goer this a.m. for the social team) #GraphMed2026
In-person attendees can get a #GraphMed2026 conference t-shirt for a $25 donation! Find a volunteer, organizer, or board member in a light blue lanyard for more info if you need it!
Let's go! #GraphMed2026
Gooooood Mooooorning, Baltimore! Who else is ready for the start of #GraphMed2026? Looking forward to seeing you at the conference reception and registration from 4-6pm at the Welch Reading Room on East Baltimore Campus!
The following sessions will stream live via Zoom: Friday: 9 am: Conference Welcome 9:30 am: Keynote Speaker: Dr. Nathan Gray Saturday: 9:30 am: Keynote Speaker: Dr. Meredith Li-Vollmer 4:45 pm: Closing Session: GMIC Awards, Announcements, Concluding Remarks
Join us after the #GraphMed2026 closing session at @redemmas.org for New Books in Graphic Medicine: Comics and Healthcare! RSVP: withfriends.co/event/286165...
We're thrilled to have two outstanding keynote speakers joining us for #GraphMed2026 in Dr. Nathan Gray and Dr. Meredith Li-Vollmer! Learn more about their work and find the full conference schedule here: www.graphicmedicine.org/graphic-medi...! See y'all later this week!
We're excited to welcome y'all to Baltimore next week for this year's Graphic Medicine Conference, Drawing Perspectives: Health Graphic Narratives Under Pressure and hosted by Johns Hopkins University! We hope you'll share about your trip with #GraphMed2026! www.graphicmedicine.org/graphic-medi...
And that's a wrap on @torontocomics.bsky.social! To creator friends who paneled and signed with us, the students who volunteered for us, and all the newcomers to the graphic medicine community - THANK YOU! Y'all make it worth it 💜 See you in Baltimore! www.graphicmedicine.org/graphic-medi...
Graphic Medicine is ready to go at @torontocomics.bsky.social! Find us at 197 on the ice rink all weekend! www.graphicmedicine.org/gmic_tcaf_20...
Come say hi to GMIC board member @noethematt.bsky.social and friends at our @comicartsmaineport.bsky.social table 🙌 Learn about what we have to offer! Browse books from our friends at Graphic Mundi, Avery Hill, Street Noise, and Fanbase Press! Donate any amount and be entered to win a comic!
Graphic Medicine will be hanging out with our friends from @bostoncomicarts.bsky.social at CAMP (Comic Arts Maine Portland) on Saturday, April 11th! Swing by to learn more about comics and health, chat with @noethematt.bsky.social, and maybe even take home a book!
Registration for the 2026 Graphic Medicine Conference is live! Join us at Johns Hopkins University July 23 - 25 for Drawing Perspectives: Health Graphic Narratives Under Pressure! Additional details soon. Watch www.graphicmedicine.org for more! www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-graph... #GraphMed2026
GMIC exists because we believe in the power of comics to change how we see health and humanity. As #GivingTuesday approaches, we’re asking you to help us continue this work. Even a small contribution goes a long way toward keeping GM open, inclusive, and sustainable. www.paypal.com/donate/?host...