Comics are fun. That makes them a good way to explain behavioral changes needed to stay healthy and safe. Image by Gemma Corell from Creativity in Captivity
by George Taniwaki
The latest issue of JAMA (Nov 2020) has a short article about the best nontechnical graphic work in medicine this past year. Naturally, the most popular topic has been the coronavirus pandemic.
I’m a big fan of visual displays of data and of comics, so this story really piqued my interest. In case you cannot access the JAMA article, I reproduce the links below.
Instructional comics
Argha Manna – Be Aware of Droplets and Bubbles
Toby Morris and Siouxsie Wiles – The Side Eye: Viruses vs Everyone
Zach Weinersmith, et al. – A Comic Strip Tour Of The Wild World Of Pandemic Modeling
Weiman Kow – How COVID-19 Spreads
Personal stories
Gemma Correll – Creativity in Captivity
Gemma Correll – Save it for a Rainy Year
The Nib and Thu Bui – Inequity in the Time of Pandemic
Comics as Therapy
Graphic Medicine, Drawing Together – The Age of Covid-19
New York Times, The Diary Project
Teresa Watson – Welcome to the Covid-19 Mental Health Struggle
Anders Nilsen – How Do We Wrap Our Heads Around Something This Big?
Real Numeracy 
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