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Graphic Medicine International Collective

The non-profit serves as a community for proponents of Graphic Medicine, a growing field that combines comics with healthcare as a way to educate and improve communication with patients.

Solution Squad

Constance and Nano

Necessary Trouble Archives

Civics for All Comics Group

Good Trouble Comics

Cosplay for Science Initiative

The Marvel Age of Comics

Spider-Man: The My Lai Massacre

The tragic massacre during the Vietnam War is explored alongside Flash Thompson’s failed attempt keep a sacred temple from being bombed when he was drafted and sent to Vietnam.

Green Arrow and His Times

Green Arrow: The Death of John Lennon

A 1984 Green Arrow comic book narrative contained a flashback sequence similar to the murder of the former Beatle, while the DC superhero attempts to stem the flow of guns in the present.

Comic Books and the Real World

Captain America: Punching American Nazis

While Captain America was punching Adolf Hitler on the cover of his self-named comic book, American gangsters were doing the same on the streets of New York City in the late 1930s.