Graphic Medicine

Graphic medicine refers to comics concerning medicine and healthcare, and their use in medical education and patient care. This genre of comics make often intimidating information accessible, while building empathy and a greater understanding of different lived experiences.

Updated July 16, 2024
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Mis(h)adra
Ata, Iasmin Omar
Paper Book
An Arab-American college student struggles to live with epilepsy in this starkly colored and deeply-cutting graphic novel. Isaac wants nothing more than to be a functional college student--but managing his epilepsy is an exhausting battle to survive. He attempts to maintain a...
Go with the flow
Williams, Lily
Paper Book
High school students embark on a crash course of friendship, female empowerment, and women's health issues in Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann's graphic novel Go With the Flow. Good friends help you go with the flow. Best friends help you start a...
Allergic
Lloyd, Megan Wagner
Paper Book
A coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel featuring a girl with severe allergies who just wants to find the perfect pet! At home, Maggie is the odd one out. Her parents are preoccupied with getting ready for a new baby, and her younger brothers are twins and always in their own world....
Hungry Ghost
Ying, Victoria.
Paper Book
Winner of 2023 Harvey Award for Best Children's or Young Adult Book Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all, thin. No one, not even her best friend, Jordan, knows that she has been bingeing and purging for years. But when tragedy strikes, Val finds herself...

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