BRIDGING THE DIVIDE:
SAW + Graphic Medicine ONLINE Summit
July 18-20, 2025
Note: this page and summit details are still being finalized.
SAW - Graphic Medicine ONLINE SUMMIT July 2025
July 18 - 20, 2025
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Saturday, July 19:
11 am ET - 12:30 pm ET: "The Significance of Evidence"Saturday, July 19:
5 pm ET - 6:30 pm ET: "The Craft and Aesthetics of Graphic Medicine"Sunday, July 20:
11 am ET: "Bees Over the Berlin Wall "Sunday, July 20:
1 pm ET: "What is Next for Graphic Medicine?"
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Saturday, July 19, 9 am ET - 10:30 ET: Young in Iran
Saturday, July 19, 3 pm ET - 4:30 pm ET: Comics Reading
Sunday, July 20, 9 am ET - 10:30 am ET: Comics Reading
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Friday, July 18, 7 pm ET - FREE
Saturday, July 19, 1 pm ET - 2:30 pm ET
Sunday, July 20, 3 pm ET - 4:30 pm ET
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Saturday, July 19, 9 pm ET - 10:30 pm ET
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Our events in the Graphic Medicine Summit are free! We ask for an optional tax-deductible donation to sign up for the all-access pass! You can do that below. You will receive a receipt for your taxes as well as access to all the materials. Additionally you will be added to the weekly SAW email list to hear about our Free Friday Night Workshops and other courses and events.
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Programming
Comics Readings
We will be hosting three live 60 minute comics readings, including one entirely from Iran.
Submissions are closed but please attend the event!
Reading 1, Sat July 19, 9-10:30 am Eastern:
Young in Iran authors. This book will feature 6 stories from cartoonists under 25 in Iran. Due to the situation in Iran we don’t know how many will be read live by their authors or by proxies. These stories are really good! Come one come all!
Reading 2, Sat July 19, 3-4:30 pm Eastern:
featuring Carole McKee Armen, Elvis Bakaitis, Eric Glickman, Kate Lavut and Lynn Bernstein and more
Reading 3, Sat July 19, 3-4:30 pm Eastern:
Featuring: Circle Yuen, Elly Teman and Zsuzsa Berend, Sonaksha, Sumit - Bakarmax Kumar and more
Comics workshops
We will be hosting three live comics workshops by SAW Graphic Medicine leaders!
Workshop 1
Friday Night Comics with Glynnis fawkes
Friday, July 18, 7PM EDT / 4 PM PDT
We’re excited to have Glynnis Fawkes guide us through a Graphic Medicine Comics Workshop!
Workshop 2
Diary Comics for The Inner and Outer World With E. Joy Mehr and J.D. Lunt
Saturday, July 19, 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT
A simple diary comics workshop focusing on health and mental health with two fabulous practitioners of daily comics drawing, Emily Joy Mehr and J.D. Lunt.
Workshop 3
RESEARCH for graphic medicine With Maureen Burdock
Sunday, July 20, 3 PM ET / 12 PM PT
What kind of research is involved in making a work of graphic medicine? How do you find the right sources? How do you know when you’ve gone deep enough, or when have you gone too deep? What is the right amount of research for you? Queen of Snails memoirist Maureen Burdock will lead you through the visual, social, scientific and other kinds of research you might find yourself needing to do.
Discussion / Roundtables
These roundtables will bring 5-6 speakers together to present and join a 20 minute discussion. Visuals encouraged.
Session 1
The Significance of Evidence
Saturday, July 19, 11 AM ET / 8AM PT
What value does evidence have?
When have we had not enough or the wrong evidence? How can we get better?
Have some stories or ideas related to this topic? Submit a proposal for a 5 minute presentation and join our roundtable Q+A.
Featuring:
Stepanka Jisolva, Kathryn Martin, Victor Jeganathan and more.
Submissions are now closed! We hope to see you there!
Session 2
The Craft and Aesthetics of Graphic Medicine
Saturday, July 19, 5 PM ET / 2 PM PT
Let’s talk about the craft of Graphic Medicine. What does drawing matter? Are “good” drawings better than “not good”? What is the value of authenticity? Does collage count? What are we looking for as readers? Submit a proposal for a 5 minute presentation and join our roundtable Q+A.
Submissions are now closed! We hope to see you there!
Session 3
"Bees Over the Berlin Wall" with MAUREEN bURDOCK
i.e. how do we cross borders to assist life?
Sunday, July 20, 11 AM ET / 8 AM PT
Maureen Burdock tells us that during the time of the Berlin Wall, bees were bred to travel from one side to the other to pollinate their flowers. How do WE cross borders to keep life alive? What bridges have we built or needed built or seen built? What currents have we had to ride to get the care we needed? Submit a proposal for a 5 minute presentation and join our roundtable Q+A.
Featuring: Cassy Lee, Cara Gormally, Makee, Cori Knight and Pam Wye
Session 4
What’s Next for Graphic Medicine?
Sunday, July 20, 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT
“Graphic Medicine” was coined in 2007 and the Graphic Medicine Manifesto written in 2015. In 10 years we have seen the field explode with readers, practitioners, and scholars alike. What has changed in those 10 years? What do we expect to be changing? What have we seen and what would we like to see? Submit a proposal for a 5 minute presentation and join our roundtable Q+A.
Submissions are now closed! We hope to see you there!
THE GMIC Graphic Medicine Awards
Saturday July 19, 9PM Eastern / 6PM Pacific
