COMICS & MEDICINE: The Sequential Art of Illness
June 9-11, 2011 
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL 
 

This second international interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the past, present, and possible future of the genre known as Graphic Medicine in the context of the healthcare experience.   We envision this gathering as a collaboration among humanities scholars, comics scholars, comics creators, healthcare professionals, and comics enthusiasts.

FEATURING:
public lecture by Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics)
keynote by David Small (Stitches) 
workshop by Brian Fies (Mom's Cancer)
keynote by Phoebe Gloeckner (A Child's Life)
workshop by Sarah Leavitt (Tangles)
keynote by Paul Gravett (Graphic Novels: Everything You Need to Know)
workshop by Neil Phillips (Shrink Rap Press)

More information and a link for registration can be found below: 
 
Comics & Medicine: The Sequential Art of Illness
June 9-11, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 
info and registration at http://bit.ly/ComicsMedicine

 
This event is co-sponsored by the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the Department of Humanities at Penn State College of Medicine, and the Science, Technology and Society Program of Penn State University, and is supported by a grant from Jean Schulz.

CME credit is available for this event.

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MK Czerwiec, RN, MA
www.comicnurse.com