The Graphic Medicine Awards 2025 Nominees Have Been Announced. The Awards Showcase Comics That Inspire and Enllight Various Aspects of Human Health. Winners Will Be announced in a virtual ceremony This July.
The 2025 Edition of the Graphic Medicine Awards Received 89 Submssions Across All Categories. WINNERS WILL EACH PERIVE A $ 600 PRIZE AND A SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE ITEM.
As in every year so far, work spotlighted in the nominations lists highlights a wide rage of subjections – Baboration, trauma, cancer Care, Vaccines, Gender, and More – From a Whole Mix of Sources. Comics featured in each category eat traditional Book Publishers, Small Pressses, Medical and University Institutions, Newspapers, and Medical Journals. If you Ever Wonder If Comics are Really Making Inroads, The Field of Graphic Medicine is a Ray of Hope.
The Graphic Medicine Awards Are Organized by The Graphic Medicine International Collective, A Non-Profit That Supports the Interaction Between The Comics Medum and Health. The Organization and Awards themselves are Supported by a mix of public donations and at $ 5,000 Commemorrative Annual Gift in Honour of Nancy and Herbert Wolf.
Begun in 2022, This Year’s Edition introduces to New Third Category Highlighting Those Comics from The Past Year with An Instructive Intent. This New Category, Best Educational Comic, Will Join The Graphic Medicine Awards’ Best Short Form and Best Long Form Comic Categories (Short Form Is Anything Below 28 Pages).
Talking about the new category, The Graphic Medicine Awards Said:
“A New Category for Our Awards This Year is Educational Graphic Medicine Comics. This category is intended to celebrate Excellence in Health-Related Comics Created Primarily with An Instrumentional AIM. These comics emphasize one or more medical topic, treatment, ease, device, device, and/or biological function. They are intended to teach medical professionals, Medical Students, Patients, Caregivers, Or The General Public. ”
Typically, The Graphic Medicine Awards are part of the Annual Summer Graphic Medicine Conference. Since 2025 Will Be a Pause Year, there is not concrete on When the Winners Will Be Announced.
The Last Conference Occurred in Athlone, Ireland, July 16-18, 2024. The Winners That Year were Hayley Gold‘s Nervous (Street noise Books) in Long Form, and Elaine M. Will‘s self-published anxiety minicomic Spiral Sessions in short form.
Graphic Medicine Award for Best Educational Comic
- Abortion Pill Zine: A Community Guide to Misoprostol and Mifepristoneby Isabella Rotman, Sage Coffey& Marnie Galloway (Silver Sproke)
- BREATHE: JOURNeys to Healthy Bindingby Maia Kobabe and Dr. Sarah Peitzmeier (Penguin Random House)
- EXPLAN CANCER TO ME: A COMIC TO ANSWER COMMON QUESTIS ABOUT CANCER, by Julia Shangguan, Kathryn West & Jane Kollmer (University of Chicago Medicine) – 14 Zine Digital Page
- Gendered Bodies: A Graphic Medicine Commentaryby KC Barry Council and Ann E. Fink (Social Science and Medicine Journal)
- Let’s talk about the HPV vaccine!by Beatrice Katsnelson, Ahmed Elzamzami, Caroline Valdez, Annika Mengwall, Michael Weinstock, Sarah Maurrasse, Sam Schild, Erik Waldman, Avanti Verma (Yale University School of Medicine)
Graphic Medicine Award for Best Short Form Comic
- CLOSING THE GAP: How A Church-Hospital Intervention on Chicago’s West Side is aiming to reduces hypertensionby Josh Neufeld (The Journalist’s Resource and Chicago Sun-Times)
- I now Pronounce You Deadby Ryan Montoya (Boston Congress of Public Health Review)
- Sunflowersby Kezy Young (Silver Sproke)
- True Stories from an icu [3 comics — The Sisters, Recovery and Decline, and Calluses]by Ernesto Barbieri, Jess Ruliffson, Heather Hopp-Bruce, Marjorie Pritchard, Jim Dao (Boston Globe)
- Uprooted: Voices of Student Homelessnessby Ashley Robin Franklin, Alexandra E. Pavlakis, Meredith P. Richards, J. Kessa Roberts, Kacy McKinney (Southern Methodist University)
Graphic Medicine Award for Best Long Form Comic
- Baldby Tereza čchavá & Štěpánka jislová; Translated from Czech Martha Kuhlman and Tereza čchavá (Graphic Mundi)
- here I am, I am me – an illustrated guide to mental Healthby Bean face (Workman Publishing)
- The Heart That Fed: A Father, A Son, and The Long Shadow of Warby Carl Sciacchitano (Gallery 13)
- The Jellyfishby Boum; translated from French By Robin Lang and Helge Dascher (Pow Pow Press)
