The National Library of Medicine will debut a new traveling exhibit, Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn! The exhibit will examine personal illness narratives in comics and graphic novels. Graphic Medicine will open at the NLM’s Bethesda, Maryland campus on January 30, 2018 and remain on view until January 3, 2019. After January 3, it will be made available to institutions free of charge, traveling to fifty sites in four years.
There will be an online exhibit with K-12 and university-level lesson plans, also to be launched on January 30. Both versions curated by New York Times Bestselling author Ellen Forney, whose 2012 graphic novel Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me addresses her own battle with bipolar disorder.