ComFor-members Gesine Wegner (TU Dresden) and Dorothee Marx (Universität Kiel) have edited and recently published the first of two special issues of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (17.3, 2023) on the topic “Cripping Graphic Medicine”. Its subtitle is “Negotiating Empathy and the Lived Experience of Disability in and through Comics”. The forthcoming second issue, “Cripping Graphic Medicine II: Access and Activism at the Crossroads of Intersectionality”, is scheduled for 2024.
Contents:
Dorothee Marx, Gesine Wegner:
Who Sees and Who’s Seen in Graphic Medicine?
Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri, Diane R. Wiener:
“Cripping” Graphic Medicine
Andrew Godfrey-Meers:
Cripping Empathy in Graphic Medicine
Maria Bee Christensen-Strynø, Lisbeth Frølunde, Louise Phillips:
Crip Empathography
jt Eisenhauer Richardson, Vicky Grube, Jeff Horwat:
Comic Artists’ Navigation of Trauma, Affect, and Representation
Maite Urcaregui:
Composing Crip Corporealities, or Decomposing Comics, in Dumb and Dancing After TEN
Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri, Diane R. Wiener:
“Cripping” Graphic Medicine: Drawing Out the Public Sphere