The Gag Reflex: Representations of Medicine in New Yorker Magazine Cartoons


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Dec 19 2015

In this entertaining, reflective, and insightful talk from his workshop at the 2105 Comics & Medicine conference, doctor and New Yorker staff cartoonist Ben Schwartz tracks the history of doctors, medicine, and health as reflected in the single-panel gag cartoons of the New Yorker Magazine. He also shares reflections from a few fellow New Yorker cartoonists on medicine in comics, and tips for making a gag comic of your own.

Keep an eye on your screen, there are over 200 comics in this presentation!

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