Susan Merrill Squier is Julia Gregg Brill Professor Emerita of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University, a founding member of the Graphic Medicine Collective, Coeditor of the Graphic Medicine Series, and Einstein Visiting Fellow of the 2016–21 PathoGraphics Research Project. Her publications include Graphic Medicine Manifesto, also published by Penn State University Press.Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff is Professor of German Literature at Freie Universität Berlin and academic lead of the 2016–2021 PathoGraphics research project.

“This multidisciplinary collection of essays examines textual and graphic representations of illness, disability, and pain, describing how the narratives in question use the aesthetics of their medium to embrace contention and community. The authors reclaim ground previously ceded to traditional paradigms and in the process liberate the mind, the body, and the text.”—MK Czerwiec, author of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371

• IntroductionSusan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff1. The Reflecting PhysicianEinat Avrahami2. Assembling a Shared Life in Anders Nilsen’s Don’t Go Where I Can’t FollowTahneer Oksman3. Ways of Looking: Reading PathoGraphicsNina Schmidt4. The Comics Pain Scale and Comics About PainAriela Freedman5. The Tightrope to Equilibrium: Parkinson’s Disease in Literature and ComicsIrmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff6. Her Leg”: Chris Ware’s Body of WorkRieke Jordan7. Crafting Psychiatric Contention Through Single-Panel CartoonsHelen Spandler8. Subverting Stigma: Community Building in Serial ComicsLeah Misemer9. Psychosis Blues: Schizophrenia, Comics, and CollaborationElizabeth J. Donaldson10. The Quickeningstef lenk11. Interview with stef lenk on The QuickeningIrmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff and Susan Merrill Squier12. Desire Paths: PathoGraphics and Transgenerational TraumaMaureen Burdock13. Scaling Graphic Medicine: The Porous Pathography, a New Kind of Illness NarrativeSusan Merrill SquierList of ContributorsIndex

Susan Merrill Squier is Julia Gregg Brill Professor Emerita of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University, a founding member of the Graphic Medicine Collective, Coeditor of the Graphic Medicine Series, and Einstein Visiting Fellow of the 2016–21 PathoGraphics Research Project. Her publications include Graphic Medicine Manifesto, also published by Penn State University Press.Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff is Professor of German Literature at Freie Universität Berlin and academic lead of the 2016–2021 PathoGraphics research project.

“This multidisciplinary collection of essays examines textual and graphic representations of illness, disability, and pain, describing how the narratives in question use the aesthetics of their medium to embrace contention and community. The authors reclaim ground previously ceded to traditional paradigms and in the process liberate the mind, the body, and the text.”—MK Czerwiec, author of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371

• IntroductionSusan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff1. The Reflecting PhysicianEinat Avrahami2. Assembling a Shared Life in Anders Nilsen’s Don’t Go Where I Can’t FollowTahneer Oksman3. Ways of Looking: Reading PathoGraphicsNina Schmidt4. The Comics Pain Scale and Comics About PainAriela Freedman5. The Tightrope to Equilibrium: Parkinson’s Disease in Literature and ComicsIrmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff6. Her Leg”: Chris Ware’s Body of WorkRieke Jordan7. Crafting Psychiatric Contention Through Single-Panel CartoonsHelen Spandler8. Subverting Stigma: Community Building in Serial ComicsLeah Misemer9. Psychosis Blues: Schizophrenia, Comics, and CollaborationElizabeth J. Donaldson10. The Quickeningstef lenk11. Interview with stef lenk on The QuickeningIrmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff and Susan Merrill Squier12. Desire Paths: PathoGraphics and Transgenerational TraumaMaureen Burdock13. Scaling Graphic Medicine: The Porous Pathography, a New Kind of Illness NarrativeSusan Merrill SquierList of ContributorsIndex

Susan Merrill Squier is Julia Gregg Brill Professor Emerita of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University, a founding member of the Graphic Medicine Collective, Coeditor of the Graphic Medicine Series, and Einstein Visiting Fellow of the 2016–21 PathoGraphics Research Project. Her publications include Graphic Medicine Manifesto, also published by Penn State University Press.Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff is Professor of German Literature at Freie Universität Berlin and academic lead of the 2016–2021 PathoGraphics research project.

“This multidisciplinary collection of essays examines textual and graphic representations of illness, disability, and pain, describing how the narratives in question use the aesthetics of their medium to embrace contention and community. The authors reclaim ground previously ceded to traditional paradigms and in the process liberate the mind, the body, and the text.”—MK Czerwiec, author of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371

• IntroductionSusan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff1. The Reflecting PhysicianEinat Avrahami2. Assembling a Shared Life in Anders Nilsen’s Don’t Go Where I Can’t FollowTahneer Oksman3. Ways of Looking: Reading PathoGraphicsNina Schmidt4. The Comics Pain Scale and Comics About PainAriela Freedman5. The Tightrope to Equilibrium: Parkinson’s Disease in Literature and ComicsIrmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff6. Her Leg”: Chris Ware’s Body of WorkRieke Jordan7. Crafting Psychiatric Contention Through Single-Panel CartoonsHelen Spandler8. Subverting Stigma: Community Building in Serial ComicsLeah Misemer9. Psychosis Blues: Schizophrenia, Comics, and CollaborationElizabeth J. Donaldson10. The Quickeningstef lenk11. Interview with stef lenk on The QuickeningIrmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff and Susan Merrill Squier12. Desire Paths: PathoGraphics and Transgenerational TraumaMaureen Burdock13. Scaling Graphic Medicine: The Porous Pathography, a New Kind of Illness NarrativeSusan Merrill SquierList of ContributorsIndex