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Graphic Medicine Texts in the Collection

The following is a list of graphic novels available for check out in the VCU Libraries collection. Each addresses a topic relevant to healthcare providers and their patients.

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If you want to check out an item through the Tompkins-McCaw Library, or request an item we currently don't have, you can fill out a request through Interlibrary Loan.

The Bad Doctor by Ian Williams
Call Number: James Branch Cabell Library General Collection PN6737.W447 B33 2015
ISBN: 9780271067544
Publication Date: 2015-03-23
Meet Dr. Iwan James: cyclist, doctor, would-be lover, former heavy metal fan, and, above all, human being. Cartoonist and doctor Ian Williams introduces us to Iwan's troubled life as all humanity, it seems, passes through his surgery doors.
Cancer Vixen by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
Call Number: James Branch Cabell Library General Collection PN6727.A27 C363 2006
ISBN: 9780307263575
Publication Date: 2006-09-26
In vivid color and with a taboo-breaking sense of humor, Marisa Acocella Marchetto tells the story of her eleven-month, ultimately triumphant bout with breast cancer.
Marbles by Ellen Forney
Call Number: James Branch Cabell Library General Collection PN6727.F678 M37 2012
ISBN: 9781592407323
Publication Date: 2012-11-06
Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between "crazy" and "creative" in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers.
Smile by Raina Telgemeier
Call Number: James Branch Cabell Library General Collection PN6727.T294 S65 2010
ISBN: 9780545132053
Publication Date: 2010-02-01
Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood! Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached.
Stitches by David Small
Call Number: James Branch Cabell Library General Collection PS3569.M285 A3 2009
ISBN: 9780393068573
Publication Date: 2009-09-08
One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had cancer and was expected to die.In Stitches, Small, the award-winning children's illustrator and author, re-creates this terrifying event in a life story that might have been imagined by Kafka.
Tangles by Sarah Leavitt
Call Number: James Branch Cabell Library General Collection RC523 .L43 2012
ISBN: 9781616086398
Publication Date: 2012-05-01
In this powerful memoir the the LA Times calls "moving, rigorous, and heartbreaking," Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer's disease transformed her mother, Midge, and her family forever.

Digital Comics

There are a number of "Web Comics" that are available for viewing. The link from the Graphic Medicine site below has curated some of the most pertinent ones dealing with a variety of health-related issues.

Graphic Medicine: Web Comics Archives

Other Items of Interest

Listed below are a few items that, while not directly related to healthcare, might be of interest.

Neurocomic by Hana Ros; Matteo Farinella (Illustrator)
Call Number: James Branch Cabell Library Special Collections and Archives (On-Site Use Only) QP376 .F37 2013
ISBN: 9781907704703
Publication Date: 2014-04-15
Neurocomic is a journey through the human brain: a place of neuron forests, memory caves, and castles of deception. Along the way, you'll encounter Boschean beasts, giant squid, guitar-playing sea slugs, and the great pioneers of neuroscience. Hana Ros and Matteo Farinella provide an insight into the most complex thing in the universe.
Charles Darwin's on the Origin of Species by Michael Keller; Nicolle Rager Fuller (Illustrator)
Call Number: James Branch Cabell Library Special Collections and Archives (On-Site Use Only) QH367 .K466 2009
ISBN: 9781605296975
Publication Date: 2009-10-27
A stunning graphic adaptation of one of the most famous, contested, and important books of all time. Few books have been as controversial or as historically significant as Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life.