Graphic Medicine Podcast
Episodes
Brian Fies discusses the 20th Anniversary Edition of Mom’s Cancer
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Graphic Medicine monthly roundup podcast- new updates in Graphic Medicine, interviews, and more! Your hosts are Alex Thomas of Booster ...
Graphic Medicine Roundup – Keywords and Keyimages in Graphic Medicine
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Graphic Medicine monthly roundup podcast- new updates in Graphic Medicine, interviews, and more! Your hosts are Alex Thomas of Booster ...
Graphic Medicine Roundup: Drawing Health with Georgia Webber
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Graphic Medicine monthly roundup podcast- new updates in Graphic Medicine, interviews, and more! Your podcast hosts are Alex Thomas of ...
Graphic Medicine Roundup: Shay Mirk and Making Nonfiction Comics
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Graphic Medicine monthly roundup podcast- new updates in Graphic Medicine, interviews, and more! Your podcast hosts are Alex Thomas, MD...
Graphic Medicine Manifesto 10th Anniversary Edition Launch
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Wednesday, October 8, 2025 the authors, editors, and publisher of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto 10th Anniversary edition gathered to discuss the b...
Graphic Medicine Roundup Episode 3
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Thomas & MK Czerwiec host the Graphic Medicine Monthly Roundup! For our third episode we are joined by Ellen Forney to discuss her latest boo...
Graphic Medicine Podcast: Heartcore
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Harvard Medical School Countway Library and the MCPHS Center for Health Humanities welcomed Czech creator Štěpánka Jislová to campus during her US...
Graphic Medicine Roundup Episode 2
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Thomas & MK Czerwiec host the Graphic Medicine Monthly Roundup! For our second episode we are joined by the winners of the new Educational GM...
Graphic Medicine Monthly Roundup June 25
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Thomas & MK Czerwiec host a new feature on the GM Podcast: Monthly Roundup! For our inaugural episode we are joined by the Sequential Artist&...
Conversations from Ireland: Martina Follador
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this last of our series from our summer 2024 conference in Athlone, Ireland, Martina Follador, illustrator and comic artist, discusses her comics o...
Conversations from Ireland: Maja Milkowska-Shibata
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this fifth podcast episode from our 2024 Ireland Conference, Christopher Dwyer speaks with Maja Milkowska-Shibata, an international health research...
Conversations from Ireland: Grace Farris
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this third podcast episode from our Ireland Conference, Christopher Dwyer speaks with Grace Farris. Grace and Chris discuss her book-in-progress, p...
GM Conference Podcast 3: Cara Bean
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cara Bean and Christopher Dwyer discuss Cara’s book here I am, I am me, mental health and art, and Cara’s workshop at the conference. Learn mo...
GM Conference Podcast 2: Catherine Gouge and KC Councilor
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the second of our Graphic Medicine Conference podcasts, Dr. Christopher Dwyer interviews Catherine Gouge and KC Councilor about their work in commu...
GM Conference Podcast 1: John Miers
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the first of our Graphic Medicine Conference podcasts, Dr. Christopher Dwyer interviews John Miers. John is a cartoonist, illustrator, academic and...
Here I Am I Am Me: An Illustrated Guide to Mental Health
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Graphic Medicine podcast, MK interviews Cara Bean to celebrate the launch of Here I Am, I Am Me: An Illustrated Guide to Mental...
The 2023 GMIC Annual Report from Toronto with Michael Green
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is long overdue, but better late than never, right? In this podcast episode, Michael Green deliver the 2023 Annual Report from the Graphic Medici...
Four-Color Heroes
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Theresa Rojas interviews Richard Fairgray and Barbra Dillon on the Fanbase Press release, Four-Color Heroes. They discuss diversity, seeing your...
A Conversation with Wendy MacNaughton about “How To Say Goodbye”
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are thrilled to welcome a very special guest to the graphic medicine podcast. Wendy MacNaughton is a graphic journalist and social worker. If the...
Exciting Podcast News!
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Exciting Podcast News Super short episode teasing upcoming changes. We want to know what you think!
Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars Interview
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
MK Czerwiec interviews Rick Louis and Lara Antal on their collaboration creating Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars. Rick Louis allows the reader a lo...
Look Again Discussion with Elizabeth Trembley
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Look Again Episode Alice Jaggers talks with Elizabeth Trembley about her recent book, Look Again. Her memoir follows her various versions of her expe...
Ripple Effects Discussion about Invisible Disability, Diabetes, and Community
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
RippleEffectsInterview Alice Jaggers talks with Jordan Hart, Barbra Dillon and Dr. Theresa Rojas about Ripple Effects. Jordan Hart is a comics creator...
The Silent Why Podcast interviews Carol Tyler about grief
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Silent Why podcast is on a mission to talk about loss and grief and are looking for 101 different types of loss, chatting to people who have been ...
Mom Milestones: An Interview with Grace Farris
21 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
FarrisInterview41222 Alice Jaggers interviews Grace Farris on her new book, Mom Milestones: The True Story of the First Seven Years. The book takes th...
2022 Latinx Comic Arts Festival
13 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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2021 Year in Review
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
2021 Year in Review episode Alice Jaggers is joined by Ebru Ustundag and MK Czerwiec in a conversation about what happened in the graphic medicine com...
Interview with MK Czerwiec
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alice Jaggers discusses the re-release of Taking Turns with creator MK Czerwiec. CzerwiecInterview11-29-21
Conversation with Maria Photinakis
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Photinakis talks to me, Alice Jaggers, about making comics during COVID and after the death of her father and about parenting as a cartoonist. W...
Mad Zines
27 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this installment, Ian Williams interviews Professor Helen Spandler, Dr Jill Anderson and Tamsin Walker, of the University of Central Lancashire (UC...
Coma: Interview with Zara Slattery
01 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Williams talks with Zara Slattery, whose book Coma comes out May 13, 2021 in the UK from publisher Myriad Editions and September 14, 2021 in the U...
Touch Is Really Strange: Interview with Steve Haines
17 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Haines together with artist Sophie Standing have created the …Is Really Strange series. The most recent is Touch Is Really Strange coming out ...
A Conversation with Kevin Wolf, Graphic Medicine Reviews Editor
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Wolf has been the Graphic Medicine Reviews Editor since 2020. He is a health actuary and has been writing reviews for the graphic medicine websi...
Launching Graphic Mundi with Kendra Boileau!
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kendra Boileau is the Publisher of Graphic Mundi and the Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief of Penn State University Press. She developed the Grap...
Best of Graphic Medicine 2020
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this month’s episode, MK talks with a panel of guests about the best Graphic Medicine of 2020. The conversation begins with Shelley Wall and ...
Interview with Kimiko Tobimatsu and Keet Geniza on Kimiko Does Cancer
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, MK Czerwiec interviews Kimiko Tobimatsu and Keet Geniza about their recent book, Kimiko Does Cancer. They discuss working on the boo...
Graphic Medicine 2019 Year End Review
31 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Susan Squier and MK Czerwiec chat about Graphic Medicine in 2019 and what they look forward to 2020. Links below to what we discu...
2019 Conference Keynote: Dr. Meg-John Barker
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first of two keynote addresses from the 2019 Graphic Medicine conference, the theme of which was, “Queerying Graphic Medicine: Pa...
Reconciling the Public and Private in Health Comics with Whit Taylor
18 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The episode opens with Alice Jaggers and host MK Czerwiec discussing Graphic Medicine News. That segment is followed by Whit Taylor‘s keynote addre...
Susan Squier 2018 Conference Keynote
12 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This month’s episode features Susan Squier’s full keynote from this year’s Graphic Medicine conference at the Center for Cartoon Studies in...
2018 Year in Review
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this last GM podcast episode of 2018, Matthew Noe and MK Czerwiec discuss the Graphic Medicine year in review and they look forward to 2019. Liste...
Mental Health Comics
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This month’s episode features a recording of the Mental Health Comics Panel from MICE 2018,Moderated by A. David Lewis, MCPHS University. Panelists ...
A Conversation with Alice Jaggers
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this month’s episode, we hear from Alice Jaggers, medical librarian and new addition to the website management team. We learn about how she got i...
July Podcast: Graphic Medicine at the American Library Association
26 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On this month’s episode, Matthew and MK recap meeting up at the American Library Association conference in New Orleans. Download episode.
Ellen Forney
09 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The June episode of the podcast features Graphic Medicine news with Matthew Noe and an interview with Ellen Forney about her follow up to Marbles, Ro...
Graphic Reproduction
04 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, an interview with Jenell Johnson, editor of the latest book in the Penn State University Press Graphic Medicine series, Graphic Repro...
Director of the National Library of Medicine, Patricia Brennan
14 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It was my great pleasure to have the opportunity to speak with Dr. Patricia Brennan, the first nurse and first woman to serve as Director of the Natio...
Hillary Chute on Why Illness and Disability?
13 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2017 Seattle conference keynote Hillary Chute discusses comics in the area of illness and disability. This talk is based on a chapter of her new book ...
Introduction to Graphic Medicine
30 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the guy who coined the term “Graphic Medicine” describes to us what it has become. Enjoy Ian Williams’ talk to the ...
Seattle Conference Opening Night
06 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a new season of the Graphic Medicine Podcast! On today’s show, audio from the opening night of the Seattle Comics & Medicine confere...
Keeper of the Clouds and Seattle 2017
04 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this new episode of the Graphic Medicine Podcast, we hear from the creative team behind the wonderful graphic medicine narrative “Keeper of the C...
An Interview with Tyler Page about Raised on Ritalin
29 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a conversation with Tyler Page, creator of Raised on Ritalin: A Personal Story of ADHD, Medication, and Modern Psychiatry. Downl...
More Doctors Making Comics!
03 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
My guests on this episode are Monica Lalanda, an emergency room physician from Spain, and Muna AlJawad, a geriatrician from Brighton, UK. Both of them...
Doctors Making Comics
21 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, two doctors making comics. First up is an interview with Carlo Jose San Juan, the creator of Callous Comics, a comic strip from...