The Comics Journal, Issue 305: Health Care, Disability, Illness & Comics

Edited by Gary Groth. Published by Fantagraphics, 2020.

 Softcover, 156 pages, colour interior.

Shines a light on how comics creators are affected by chronic disease, disability and our nation’s health care system. This issue also features a zine created by the civil rights organization SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and the Black Panther Party in 1967, for a Black community in Alabama that attempted to take back their voting rights in their local elections. There is also a profile on cartoonist Kevin Huizenga (Ganges), and much more.

CONTENTS:

Blood and Thunder (6)

Lin Visel, Jason Murphy, Roman Muradov, Anya Davidson, Keren Katz, Mike Norton, Molly Mendoza

From the Trenches (10)

Graphic Medicine

MK Czerwiec, RN

Conversation (16)

HTML Flowers and Rebecca Kirby

Moderated by RJ Casey

Vision Mapping Health Care for 2030 (54)

Alece Birnbach

Conversation (56)

Maria Sweeney and Georgia Webber

Moderated by Kristy Valenti

Sketchbook (78)

Patrick Dean

Reconsidering the Canon (100)

Blankets and Maré Odomo’s Late Bloomer

Sloane Leong

Expanded Comics (106)

Kim Jooha

Comics/Collage/Appropriation

Gallery (110)

The Story of the Development of an Independent Political Movement on the County Level

Aaron Dixon, introduction

Kevin Huizenga

Interviewed by Alec Berry

Gallery (110)

Clare Briggs, colored by Noah Van Sciver

Fan Mail (152)

Kayla E.

Marge’s Little Lulu