2026 is Graphic Medicine Year at SAW
Advancing health through story, art, and community.
SAW affirms the Graphic Medicine Mission
We are working with the wonderful people at Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) to help support the use of comics in stories about health.
Upcoming and ongoing: Classes, workshops and podcasts
-
![]()
Weekly Drawing Health Sessions
Come together for one hour of guided somatic exploration, drawing practices, and discussion. Like a yoga class, for your art.
Saturdays on Zoom, 11am - 12pm EST.
-
![]()
3 Month Graphic Medicine Deep Dive
Join Maureen Burdock in a limited enrollment class to go deep with your Graphic Medicine Class.
3 months, starts Jan 20, 2026.
-
![]()
Drawing Health Podcast
Weekly audio practices and deep conversations about Graphic Medicine and creative health.
New episode every Sunday, starting on December 21st, 2025.
-
![]()
Graphic Medicine Murmuration
An annual publishing cohort of health-minded artists make community and comics. Start with the body, sustain with support.
6-month program starting March 21st, with the spring, 2026.
Comics and Talkback Recordings
-
![]()
Graphic Medicine Summit
In July 2025, we partnered with the GMIC for a 3-day online Graphic Medicine Summit, featuring comic readings, workshops and panel discussions, as well as the GMIC Graphic Medicine Awards. 13 wonderful, free recordings.
-
![]()
Graphic Medicine Comics Reading
Nurses, doctors and patients in dialogue. Five true stories from the Frontline!
-
![]()
Trauma + Graphic Memoir Reading and Talk.
Six Graphic Memoirists in dialogue about trauma and getting your book done
THIS MONTH’S FEATURED ARCHIVE
The Significance of Evidence
What value does evidence have? When have we had not enough or the wrong evidence? How can we get better? A panel discussion and reading featuring Stepanka Jisolva, Arielle Duhaime Ross, Kathryn Martin, Victor Jeganathan, and Elly Teman.
Štěpánka Jislová is a Czech illustrator and comics artist. Born in the early 90s in Prague, the intricacies of post Soviet block Europe remain one her favorite topics to explore. She is the (co)author of eight comics albums, the latest being Heartcore, an intimate autobiography about relationships, attachments and the toxic cycles we so often call love.
Dr. Victor Jeganathan is a researcher working in a department called the Psychological Insights Team in England in the County of Derbyshire. Vic is in a in dual role as a research officer, providing input to both the local Public Health Department and one of their community health services.
Elly Teman is a medical anthropologist and the author of Birthing a Mother: the Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self (UCPress, 2010.)
Arielle Duhaime-Ross is a freelance science journalist, podcast host, comics artist, and TV host based in Portland, Oregon.
Kathryn Martin is a multi-award winning illustrator and writer. She is also Senior Lecturer in Illustration for Communication at Ravensbourne University London. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2015, Kathryn’s work has been recognized in national and international illustration prizes, including the World Illustration Awards, and has also exhibited her work internationally in Europe and Asia.
The Graphic Medicine Summit
The Graphic Medicine Summit 2025 was a collaboration between the Sequential Artists Workshop and the Graphic Medicine International Collective, and took place on Zoom from July 18th-20th, 2025. It featured group readings, workshops and roundtable discussions, as well as the GMIC Graphic Medicine Awards.
The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2019 to guide and support the use of graphic narratives (ie, comics) in health.
More of our favorite free graphic medicine workshops
Hosted by SAW and free on Youtube