The field of graphic medicine is an emerging genre of medical literature combining the art of comics and personal illness narratives. The topic will be explored in the National Library of Medicine Travelling Poster Exhibit on display April 29–June 8 at the Library (E2.200) in the Florence Building. The banner exhibition and companion website, “Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived & Well-Drawn!,” was curated by artist, educator, and New York Times bestselling-author and artist Ellen Forney. 

Feeling creative? A coloring book with images taken from the rare Hebra’s Atlas of Skin Diseases will be available for download or pickup near the exhibit.

For more graphic medicine resources, visit the Library’s Medical Humanities Guide.