<div dir="ltr"><div>Happy New Year, friends!</div><div><br></div><div>Just forwarding on an interesting email from the  comixscholars list in case you have not seen it. Apologies for any duplication.</div><div><br></div><div>Wishing you all a god, safe, and healthy 2022.</div><div><br></div><div>-Nhora<br></div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Nhora Lucía Serrano, Ph.D. </font></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Associate Director for Digital Learning & Research | </font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hamilton College</font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Co-Editor, Crossing Lines: Transcultural/Transnational Comics Studies | </font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b></b></font></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Wilfrid Laurier University Press </b></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Ebru Ustundag</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:eustundag@brocku.ca">eustundag@brocku.ca</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 9:31 AM<br>Subject: [COMIXSCHOLARS-L] The Inaugural Graphic Medicine Award<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:COMIXSCHOLARS-L@lists.ufl.edu">COMIXSCHOLARS-L@lists.ufl.edu</a>><br></div><br><br>





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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:#111111">The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to guide and support the uses of comics in health, is thrilled to announce an award
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:#111111">Nancy and Herb were married for 61 years. They raised four children and enjoyed their two grandchildren. Nancy was an artist, especially skilled at needlepoint, and a medical records
 administrator who chaired the medical records department of a Chicago-area hospital. Herb was a consulting actuary specializing in life insurance. In 2010, he received the lifetime achievement award from the Conference of Consulting Actuaries. As college students
 in the late 1940s, Nancy and Herb fought racial discrimination, sitting-in at segregated lunch counters. They supported anti-racist, anti-war, and economic social justice causes throughout their lives. They performed numerous plays with friends for over forty-five
 years. Nancy died in 2010. Herb died in 2018. This award is intended to honor and carry on their legacy of service and care.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:21.0pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:black">Q: What qualifies as a work of graphic medicine for this award?<u></u><u></u></span></h3>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:#111111">A:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:#111111"> Comics of any length that emphasize one or more health-related topics and were completed
 or published in 2021 are eligible for this award. Graphic medicine comics take as their theme (or meaningfully include) topics that impact health. We define the term “health” here broadly, based on the World Health Organization definition: a state of physical,
 mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.  Comics can be fiction or nonfiction, memoir or biography, educational and/or entertaining. Both print and web-based comics are eligible for this award. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:#111111">A:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:#111111"> Please use<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brock.ca1.qualtrics.com_jfe_form_SV-5FbBAJ11XLx7gQHK6&d=DwMF-g&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=U5Unf7-i055iIghwvzEOy_GhsKUG6Ka6XgVTTePa3p8&m=qrfOTYPvi5spP_2djciYhhvIwy4AZXxN3xGhJYkCD6w15biZSDhxohCheK5g5djG&s=IZKf1mjQM8_Kv4ArXjiM5epsJgx2nJ2tseF0fsmqfPM&e=" target="_blank"><span style="color:#920000"> this
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:#111111">A:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:#111111"> The winner will be selected by the GMIC Award Selection Committee,  consisting of
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:#111111">A:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:#111111"> The winner of the inaugural 2022 GMIC Award will be announced at the Graphic Medicine
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<span style="font-size:21.0pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:black">Q: You said the award donation requires matching funds. Is there ongoing fundraising to provide the match this award requires? <u></u><u></u></span></h3>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:#111111">A:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:#111111"> Yes. To help develop and fund this annual award, GMIC will receive an annual $5,000
 gift through at least 2031 in Honor of Nancy and Herbert Wolf. <b><span style="font-family:"Libre Franklin"">Receipt of this generous gift is contingent on raising matching funds!</span></b> To help make this award possible, you can make a tax-deductible
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:#111111">A:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:#111111"> Yes! For 2022, there will be a single award, but GMIC anticipates additional award
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