The Graphic Medicine Review (GMR) (ISSN 2993-8252) publishes scholarly works relevant to both the comics medium (aka comic books, graphic novels, manga, bande dessinée, etc.) and healthcare, medicine, wellness, patient experience, and public health policy. GMR is an open-access resource primarily produced in English but international in scope and concerns.
Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2026
Research
A Framework for Reading, Interpreting and Analyzing the Visuals of Graphic Medicine Comics
María José Mompeán-Mejías, Elena Sánchez-López and Brian Callender
Analysis
Posted by Submitted by Lisa Daria Kennedy on 2026-08-30
Graphic Medicine conferences create a space to foster dialogue and connection across disciplines while providing opportunities to share artwork, scholarship, and ideas. They also serve as a space to reinforce the field’s guiding principle as an inclusive visual storytelling practice that makes room for voices frequently overlooked. This principle shaped the return of the New England Graphic [...]
Posted by A. David Lewis on 2026-05-31
With the launch of voume 6, the editors of the Graphic Medicine Review (GMR) wanted to take a moment to address three related topics and policies that we are overtly putting in place for the journal. The first returns to two of our 2025 posts concerning AI. Currently, GMR remains closed to any submissions generated by or using generative AI. We especially want to urge authors and creators [...]
Posted by A. David Lewis on 2025-10-20
As GMR moves into 2026 and its 5th-year anniversary, co-editors A. David Lewis and Mary Piorun want to provide new avenues by which the identified Editorial Team can contribute to and help navigate the direction of the journal moving forward. To that end, a number of extremely helpful earlier members have transitioned off the team—and we thank them for all the time and effort they have [...]
Posted by A. David Lewis, with resource assistance from Matthew Noe on 2025-09-20
During a recent meeting of the NNLM Region 7 COI for Graphic Medicine, one of the participants, interested in resource and publishing opportunities with the Graphic Medicine Review, noted that the site was down. Indeed, it was: the entire Janeway journal system was offline due to a mass AI bot attack. Fortunately, the dilemma was resolved relatively quickly and without further issue -- except, [...]
Posted by A. David Lewis on 2025-02-24
When the Graphic Medicine Review (GMR) was first founded through the MCPHS University Library and with the support of the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association in 2020, concerns about Artificial Intelligence were more a matter of computer science, philosophy, and speculative fiction. (Notably, there were early warnings.) Five years later – and now with the stalwart aid and [...]