The Graphic Medicine International Collective has announced the addition of a new “Educational” award category to the annual GMIC Awards for outstanding health-related comic projects.
The new category is additional to the original categories of “Short-form” comics (28 pages or less), won last year by Elaine M. Will for Spiral Sessions, and “Long-form” comics (more than 28 pages), won last year by Hayley Gold for Nervosa.
The new third award category, launching in the 2025 award cycle, celebrates excellence in educational graphic medicine. It is intended to celebrate comics with a primarily instructional aim: comics that emphasise one or more medical topics, treatments, diseases, devices, and biological functions to teach medical professionals, medical students, patients, caregivers, or the general public.
Submissions in this new category can be of any length. Winners will receive $600 and a keepsake award.
The Graphic Medicine International Collective is a non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting the use of comics in health. Launched in 2022, the GMIC Annual awards are one of its primary initiatives, meant to recognise and honour outstanding health-related comic projects published in the previous year.
To help fund these awards, GMIC will receive an annual $5000 gift through to at least 2031 in honour of artist and administrator Nancy Wolf and consulting actuary Herbert Wolf.
“With generous donations from our community, we continue to support artists and honour Nancy and Herbert Wolf,” said Ebru Ustundag, Board co-chair of the Graphic Medicine International Collective and member of the GMIC Award steering committee. “This year, we are delighted to introduce a new category highlighting accessible and ingenious educational comics that convey accurate medical information
Submitted educational comics will be evaluated on innovation and creativity; potential for impact on learning outcomes; community engagement and collaboration; medical accuracy (required, but conventional medical illustrations are not); accessibility and ease of understanding; and effective use of the comics medium.
• Nominations for all three GMIC Awards will open Wednesday 1st January 2025, with winners announced in the Summer of 2025. Creators, educators, and publishers can submit nominations through the GMIC website
PLEASE NOTE: Comics generated using artificial intelligence (AI) will not be considered for any of the three GMIC Awards
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The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.
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