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\"mage:In August 2022, we launched a call for submissions for a new digital, open access journal column dedicated to the intersection of the rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) and graphic medicine. After months of development, the first \u201cGraphic RHM\u201d column was published as part of RHM<\/em> issue 6.4, appearing on this website.<\/p>\n

As column co-editors, we invite submissions from scholars at all levels of experience with comic-making\u2014including beginners. Comics for this column can be valuable contributions even if they are not drawn as a trained artist might create them.<\/p>\n

We welcome comics related to collaborative and cross-disciplinary work, projects still in development, and issues of equity and justice in health and medicine. We also encourage authors to help us imagine a range of multimodal comic forms.<\/p>\n

Submissions should consist of 1) an original comic and 2) an artist statement.<\/p>\n

The original comic<\/strong> should be a somewhat short sequence (in most cases, no more than 3\"Image: pages or 9 panels). We are open to considering publishing excerpts of longer comics and to publishing multiple excerpts over several columns as part of a series. Submissions can also be shared with us at any stage of development (including thumbnail sketches, storyboards) and can even be a set of multiple related, shorter comics (e.g., about the same experience).<\/p>\n

Comic submissions should include alt text and any audio components should be accompanied by a transcript. We welcome other ideas for making published content more accessible as we work on making the column as accessible as possible to all interested readers. Two of the contributors to the inaugural column, for example, developed an audio track that mixes voice and music for each panel of the comic (Dozier) and multiple ways of viewing\/reading\/listening to the comic (Bahl).<\/p>\n

The artist statement<\/strong> should provide a brief explanation of the comic\u2019s exigency, creation process, and\/or context, along with its implications for the RHM audience; it should end with a bulleted set of \u201ctakeaways\u201d for an RHM audience. The artist statement can be written, recorded as a sound file, and\/or drawn as a comic (see examples of the latter by Al-Jawad<\/a> and by Weaver-Hightower<\/a>). The written portion of the artist statement should be no longer than 1500 words. Contributors who do not identify as rhetoricians of health and medicine may get help from the column co-editors or other rhetoricians with portions of their artist statements.<\/p>\n

Exploring the Graphic Medicine\/Rhetoric of Health and Medicine intersection, we hope this \u201cGraphic RHM\u201d column will extend our field\u2019s trans\/interdisciplinary reach and enrich its practices, including those related to theorizing, research, teaching, and outreach.\u00a0To this end, we invite the following types of submissions and ask that interested scholars propose new types:<\/p>\n