Comics and Medicine

Rhetorics of the Visual: Graphic Medicine, Comics and its Affordances

Affordances, in the context of comics, connote to the general attributes of the medium such as temporality, spatiality, gestures, tone/handwriting and economy. Although comics evinces a dynamic relationship among these elements, it is possible to delineate functional and rhetorical role of these affordances on a conceptual and technical level. Taking these cues, the paper after briefly reviewin...

Introducing Comics and Ideology

Comics and medicine: peering into the process of professional identity formation.

PROBLEM Medical students experience transformative personal and professional changes during medical school. The medical education community has much to learn about how students perceive these changes, which can be dramatic and profound. APPROACH Over the past six years (2009-2014), the author has taught a course on medical graphic narratives (or comics) to fourth-year medical students. Comics...

Collaboration through comics

This paper examines the role of design comics within business analysis. We first consider background to the use of comics within design work. This leads us to collate a number of advantages to using design comics as an intermediate and user-centric representation within acts of business analysis. We then describe our own use of design comics for making sense of socio-technical organisation and ...

The comics war.