Graphic Medicine's Possible Futures: Reconsidering Poetics and Reading

Note: Funding Information: Additionally, over the last few years, a small but rising number of medical institutions have begun to work with comics artists to produce graphic medicine comics to disseminate information about various healthcare issues and treatments to the public. A prime example is Parables of Care: Creative Responses to Dementia Care, as Told by Carers, a comic by Simon Grennan, Christopher Sperandio, Peter Wilkins, and Ernesto Priego about caring for people suffering from dementia. Funded in part by the UK’s Tavistock and Portman National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust and Care’N’Share, an EU-funded project supported by City, University of London and the Skills for Care initiative, Parables of Care is a collection of adapted firsthand stories from dementia carers. In an interview for The Elder, Grennan described the impetus for adapting the stories: