Graphic Medicine in 2023
A. David Lewis visits Comics@SDSU
Wednesday March 22, 2023
The academic field, creative genre, and healthcare practice of Graphic Medicine is here. As it moves from its earliest days into a maturing area of comics studies and publishing, what are its further frontiers? And is there unrecognized peril among its promise? Dr. Lewis delivers both an overview and a humble prognostication of what is yet to come for the exciting, international enterprise – and how individuals can be a vital part of it!
A. David Lewis is the Eisner Award-nominated author of American Comics, Religion, and Literary Theory: The Superhero Afterlife as well as co-editor of both Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels and Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation. Featured on numerous podcast and television programs, Dr. Lewis is currently program director for the MHS degree at the MCPHS University School of Arts and Sciences where his teaching and research focus on Graphic Medicine, specifically the depiction of cancer in comic books and graphic novels. Finally, he is the acclaimed author of such comics as The Lone and Level Sands and Kismet, Man of Fate.