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Pub day is tomorrow!!! 5 years, 41 brilliant contributors, and one @lisadiedrich.bsky.social, I can’t imagine building a project like this with anyone else!!
lisadiedrich.bsky.social Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 19d
First inklings of this book were in 2019. Initial plans were delayed by the lockdown in 2020. The cfp went out in 2021. We have been working with our 41 amazing contributors for over 5 years, editing, securing permissions & high-res images. Could not have done it with anyone but @briwok.bsky.social!
February 2, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine is out February 3rd!! Such a joyful project with brilliant contributors, that she’s also an Aquarius is chef’s kiss!!
January 15, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Lookit the swell folks you run into at @countwaylibrary.bsky.social and thanks to @massmice.bsky.social (KEYWORDS/KEYIMAGES IN GRAPHIC MEDICINE is out this February from Penn State Press.) @briwok.bsky.social
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December 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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It’s getting real now… Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine is out this February from Penn State University Press!!
lisadiedrich.bsky.social Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Dec 5
Front + back of Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine!!
Closer...
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Front and back cover of Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine with Ian Williams's image of OCD on the front cover and text on the back: “This is not your typical keywords book. Diedrich and Martino have curated an exceptional and timely volume that engages readers in the possibilities and understandings of graphic medicine.” —Juliet McMullin, author of The Healthy Ancestor: Embodied Inequalities and the Revitalization of Native Hawaiian Health This book invites students, scholars, and practitioners to explore the field of graphic medicine through a new concept. Coined by the editors to reflect the unique combination of words and images in comics, “keywords/keyimages” offers a fresh way to understand how graphic narratives communicate experiences of health and illness. Rather than defining the field, this book demonstrates its range and complexity, offering a visual and verbal resource that reveals the methods, concepts, and politics shaping graphic medicine today. Designed as a resource for classroom teaching and independent study, Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine provides practical tools for analyzing, teaching, and creating graphic medicine texts. The collection brings together thirty-seven contributions from comics artists, scholars, healthcare professionals, and patients, each focused on a single keyword/keyimage. Organized into five thematic sections—practice, pedagogy, process, personal/autobiographical, and politics—the book guides readers through the formal elements of comics, teach- ing strategies, creative processes, personal storytelling, and the broader health politics at work in the field.
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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T minus 5 minutes!!
lisadiedrich.bsky.social Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Oct 24
New England Graphic Medicine Summit happening today in Boston. My co-editor extraordinaire @briwok.bsky.social will be presenting on our forthcoming book Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine with one of our contributors, Ellen Grabiner on her keyword/keyimage PICTURING. #GraphicMedicine
negm25.bsky.social negm25.bsky.social @negm25.bsky.social · Oct 17
IN ONE WEEK!
More updates to the programming below. Zoom links to go out early next week. You can still sign up *free* to attend virtually here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
(Scarlett Shiloh's name will be corrected, don't worry.) 🙃
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October 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Look at this gorgeous cover for Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine!! Thanks to Ian Williams for giving us permission to use his image on the cover, which captures brilliantly the concept & structure of the book. Briana Martino (@briwok.bsky.social) & I are grateful & thrilled!
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Book cover for Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine edited by Lisa Diedrich and Briana Martino. The image on the cover is from Ian Williams, & is a version of an image from his book The Bad Doctor, a graphic narrative based on his own experience with OCD. A boy is in bed with his hands folded in prayer & his thoughts take the form of a sefirot surrounding his head.
October 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Love our logo!!! New England Graphic Medicine Summit is planned for October 24th, Boston, MA.
negm25.bsky.social negm25.bsky.social @negm25.bsky.social · Aug 3
Check out our excellent logo for #NEGM25 this October by the talented hudrewthis.bsky.social ! It is an homage to local railroad construction foreman Phineas Gage, famous for the spike that impaled his head and suggested a link between personality & brain trauma.
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August 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Proofs!!
lisadiedrich.bsky.social Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Aug 4
We have proofs!!

Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine coming early 2026!!

#GraphicMedicine
Proofs of the title page for a book: Keywords/ Keyimages in Graphic Medicine Edited by Lisa Diedrich and Briana Martino The Pennsylvania State University Press University Park, Pennsylvania
August 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM