Graphic Medicine is taking hold in comics nonfiction and fiction. These stories may be one-page standalones, webcomics, in comic books, in health and medical education teaching tools, academic research, graphic novels, books, and zines. They may be published digitally on social media platforms and cartoonist websites. This panel brings together cartoonists who have had cancer or are cancer patient caregivers to discuss the creative process of making comics through the various phases of cancer—symptoms, screening, diagnostics, treatments, and, hopefully, remission. Panelists Naomi Volain (Plants Go Global), Barbra Dillon (Fanbase Press), Chris Fink (Breakthrough: Life on the Brink), Brianna Collins, Federico Muelas Romero (T(H)UMOR, Dear Cancer Diary . . . ), and Matthew Mewhorter (Cancer Owl) consider who benefits from cancer comics and graphic pathographies, how graphic medicine differs from other work, and where their work is seen, published, and promoted.
