Twelve years of graphic medicine: A conversation with comic nurse on the future of comics and medicine

Abstract

Illness narratives in the comics medium gained renewed attention when graphic medicine emerged in 2007 as an interdisci-plinary approach towards rethinking the affective contours of experi-ences related to illness, disability, and healthcare. Followed by a decade of scholarly and artistic endeavors, graphic medicine has now secured global recognition as a movement and a practice. As graphic medicine has completed a decade and enters its second, this conversation with M. K. Czerwiec, the co-founder of graphic medicine, is a significant addition to the existing knowledge on the unique corpus of comics and healthcare.