Metaphorography: Visualizing Health Experiences in Selected Graphic Narratives

The term graphic medicine, coined by Dr. Ian Williams is defined as “the intersection between the medium of comics and the discourse of health care”. The paper problematizes the employing of metaphors in the selected graphic medical texts, which traverses the varying aspects of caring, from caring about the other in Brian Fies Mom’s Cancer” ; through caring for oneself, by listening to others in M.K. Czerwiec’s Menopause: A Comic Treatment; to caring for oneself in Kimiko Tobimatsu’s Kimiko Does Cancer. From the panels to fonts and colour palette, the paper attempts to study the process of signification triggered by these elements.