Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn
April 14, 2025
Forts Trail Region
In a traveling exhibition and companion website, the National Library of Medicine explores personal stories of illness in Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn. Graphic Medicine uses the combined language of words and pictures in a comic medium that gives approachability and emotional impact to these personal stories and even to the clinical data they sometimes include. Learning about illness and treatment can be an effective coping and healing strategy for the author and sharing that information with readers can transform a negative experience into a positive one.