Michael Green with a poster of a student's comic about an experience she had as a medical student. The popularity and effectiveness of Green's elective course in comics for students at Penn State College of Medicine are influencing medical educators across the country.
Initially reluctant to venture into graphic medicine, editor in chief Kendra Boileau has overseen the publication of 18 graphic novels and anthologies and four scholarly books on graphic medicine since 2015. She is preparing to launch Graphic Mundi ("graphic worlds"), a new imprint in the field, in early 2021. The tagline of the imprint will be "Drawing our worlds together."
Susan Squier, an eminent scholar of Virginia Woolf and discourse in bioethics, got interested in comics in the 1990s when she found that using cartoons helped engage audiences when she talked about ethical issues surrounding organ transplantation and embryo research. She and Penn State colleague Michael Green helped found the graphic medicine movement.
