This is Panel 13 from last summer’s Comics & Medicine conference in Toronto. In this episode we will hear from three speakers in two presentations. Both will address medically-relevant themes as they have appeared in mainstream media comics. “Facing” illness: what the “funnies” can teach us about caregiver role, response, and needs Sarah Russe and Judith Kaplan-Weinger An overt focus on the effects of illness is still rare in mainstream syndicated comics. One of the few examples can be found in the “Funky Winkerbean” comic strip, by Tom Batiuk, which not only highlights a woman’s ultimately terminal experience with cancer,... Read More The post Toronto Panel 13: Comics & Medicine in the Mainstream appeared first on Graphic Medicine.