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THE BLOG AT THE CROSSROADS
My Chicago Comics & Medicine Keynote Speech
Posted: July 11, 2011
You can listen to my Keynote Speech, entitled Body Worlds, which I gave at Northwestern University in Chicago on Friday June 10 to open their Comics & Medicine Conference. By way of introduction, I give some background and context on how the medical profession and medical issues have been represented in comics, before charting the blossoming since 1972 of autobiographical comics and the explosion of graphic novels and manga, all related to illness, whether from the perspective of the sufferer, or their family and friends, or of their carers. Many thanks again for this amazing, intense, unforgettable experience, where I also got to meet up again with Brian Fies, Phoebe Gloeckner and Scott McCloud and finally encountered the brilliant John Porcellino and David Small.
L to R: Brian Fies, David Small & PG!
Photo courtesy of Brian Fies
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