Comic Creation as an Innovative Library Role:

PF Anderson, MILS; Elise Wescom, BFA; Kai Donovan, MA; & Ruth Carlos, MD, MS

University of Michigan — Ann Arbor

Process, Resources, Publishing (and What About Peer Review?)

Step 1: Be There, or Be Square Step 2: Cooking 101

Lib Guide: Graphic Medicine: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/graphicmedicine

Step 4: Invitation to a Pot Luck!Step 3: Read (and Write?) Recipe(s)

“We have a special issue in December for patient engagement. We just got an illustrator. I proposed a comic book guide to difficult conversations .

Would you be willing to write the text (with me or with others) for the illustrator?”

Step 5: Assemble Your Tools Step 6: Assemble Your Ingredients (Team)

Criteria: Cost, capability, compatibility, sturdiness,

flexibility, portability, but most of all, can I draw on the monitor

with my pen?

Step 7: Mix Things Up Step 8: Bake Your Brains

Image source: Oven <https://openclipart.org/detail/598/oven> Brain <https://openclipart.org/detail/268039/simple-brain-diagram>

Step 9: Taste Test (Cook/Creators) Step 10: Taste Test (Diner/Viewer)

Hunh?

Step 11: Revise the Recipe Step 12: Taste Test (Again) (& Again)

Layout?Frame?Gutter?Caption?Shading?Arrows?!?

Step 13: Serve It Up! Step 14: And? did you like it? http://bit.ly/JA

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